Regine, a psychologically fragile young woman, is hiding away in the city, far from the dark and forbidding countryside of her traumatic childhood. She__APOS__s struggling to construct the loving family she never had, and to rise above the events of the past: above all, the disastrous home birth of her brother Isaac, which led to her mother__APOS__s insanity and Isaac__APOS__s apparent death. But the city is tense and hostile, and contains its own threats. An abusive relationship with the controlling psychiatrist who__APOS__s treating her mother is already blighting Regine__APOS__s life when the brutal murder of her grandmother raises a crucial question: is Isaac still alive, and looking for revenge against a family which he feels has rejected him? Driven to heal the wounds of the past and to reunite her family by connecting with the brother she__APOS__s never met, Regine must return to the site of her previous traumas and confront the true source of her family__APOS__s guilt. It could make sense of her life - or throw it into ...
