The mysterious Gothic of the American North. The keys to solving the murder of a century ago are hidden in the dreams of one woman… Grieving the collapse of her marriage, Kate Granger settled in her parents' house on the shore of the huge Lake Superior. And there, the legendary waters of the "inner sea" of North America throw up a terrible secret to her – they throw a murdered woman ashore. A surprisingly well-preserved body in an antique nightgown, in the folds of which... a dead child was entangled. Who is she? The police have no answer to this question. But Kate seems to know this woman – sees in strange dreams where she can't distinguish herself from her. These dreams carry her back a hundred years in a seething stream, circling in the maelstrom of ancient legends and family legends...