The year is 1995 and May is an ordinary wife and mother to two young children. Working on the production line at the local factory, May enjoys the odd night out with her workmates. One night, they went to see a hypnotist. May decided to delve deeper and sought out a regressionist.

After being regressed, May is transported back in time to a life she once lived as an attendant in a Victorian lunatic asylum in the 1800s. The treatment of both the patients and staff were beyond cruel, made worse by two evil senior attendants. May witnessed some awful and barbaric things.

Along comes Esme who has been admitted due to being deemed a lunatic suffering from hysteria and wild delusions, after being spurned by her lover. Esme has an instant impact on May. May sees the soft and kind Esme, who helps one of the elderly patients. Later it is discovered that Esme is with child. Following a cruel and harsh labour, Esme pleads with May to take her baby to a wise old woman that lives in the woods. On May's return to the asylum, she cannot see Esme anywhere and wonders what those two evil attendants have done with her.

A hundred years later the past meets the present. Could May get her answer after all?