About the title
Southold, New York, 1843. Young Mary, blood seeping from beneath a blindfold over her eyes, is being interrogated about the events surrounding her grandmother's death. As the story moves back in time, we learn how Mary, raised in a religious family, finds fleeting happiness in the arms of the maid Eleanor. Her family, who believe they see, speak, and act in God's name, regard the girls' relationship as an abomination to be fought as strictly as possible. The couple try to meet in secret, but someone is always watching them. The reckoning for their presumed sin threatens to become deadly, and the tension only grows with the arrival of a mysterious stranger.