Devlin is a loser...or so his adulterous girlfriend told him, and his father, and his mother in her overbearing, tentative head-stroking kind of way. Time for a new start, a different city and a new place to call home. His flat reveals a secret: a journal that belonged to the woman who was here before him. Just a peak - the turning of one page leads to another, leads to revelatory visions of a place and a power that permeates the complex in which he lives, calling into question the apparent innocence of its residents. Why did she leave? How did she leave? In his search for answers he learns of a ravaged, hate-filled history belonging to a different world and time. He finds a strength to dig beyond the acceptance of disclosure, past the lies and deception, deeper into the darkness of a magic and a world beyond the walls of plaster and brick to the core of what awaits him: a new identity, death, darkness and a love shrouded in displaced recollection and malice.