When her father, dies unexpectedly and her mother falls, ill, young Rosa must secure her future. By marrying John Erickson, a visiting trader. Rosa follows John to his secluded home, near the sea, a foreboding place, with a locked attic, which he forbid her from entering. John is rarely home, and in his absence, Rosa starts to hear strange sounds coming from behind the attic door. The local villagers tell her that John’s first wife died under mysterious circumstances. As the sounds continue, Rosa becomes obsessed with John secrets and his past. What happened to his first wife? Was she mad? A witch? Or tragic victim? And what or who is in the attic?