一位悉心照料流浪猫的寡妇，一个对大海充满热爱的男孩，一位被生活深深铭刻的哲学家……伊娃·内曼用温柔和细腻的手法描绘了敖德萨的居民们。在战争摧毁了一切确定性之后，她试图探寻这些人们心中仍然怀有的梦想。

A young Englishwoman is drawn to an island in the Black Sea in an attempt to discover her mysterious connection to a remove convent--a crumbling edifice that has been constructed over a labyrinth of Lovecraftian horrors.