A terrible event has shattered the lives of Netty and Gerald Feldwick. Pursued by memory and betrayed by silence, they move to France hoping to escape their past and salvage their marriage. But the past is all around them and their loss is driving them apart.
Taking refuge in an old French hunting lodge deep in the woods of the Perigord, they find the region is steeped in powerful Gallo-Roman history and Netty, watchful and vulnerable, begins to decipher more recent sadistic and Bacchanalian dramas. Alienated from her husband and haunted by the spirits of past centuries and her own corrosive grief, Netty finds sanctuary only in the garden she weaves in her tapestries.
