Twenty-six-year-old Jule flees to her parents after a fierce argument with her boyfriend. What has happened should never have happened. In the house on the edge of the village, she now wants to stay and quietly decide how to move forward. But then the news of her grandmother's death reaches the family, and Jule is taken aback. Why has her mother never talked about her grandmother or her own childhood? As they clean out the grandmother's house together, Jule finds clues about long-ago events that still exert their destructive power in the present. It is time for healing to begin – for all the women in the family.