Martha Jamieson is a psychiatric nurse who has been offered the position of caretaker for a troubled young woman on Vancouver Island.

On the way she encounter with a bearded young man and receives a mysterious warning. Her destination, and an island shrouded in mist and mystery, does nothing to calm the unsettled feeling that she might be headed into real danger. Added to that she must cope with a young woman who might or might not be mentally unbalanced and try to get to the bottom of the rumors about an ancient curse. What has Martha gotten herself into in her quest to escape the past.