Military doctor General Klenski is arrested in Stalin's Russia in 1953 during an anti-Semitic political campaign accused of being a participant in so-called doctors' plot.
As a child, Evie lost herself in the myths and legends of the sea while her family collapsed around her. A childhood tragedy and an estrangement from her loved ones means Evie must find her way in the world on her own....now the demons of her past have come to reclaim her.