Enter the curious world of a house of gentlemen's pleasures, run by a coven of unusual women. In this house, the troubled are healed and hidden, as much from themselves as from the world around them.

A young girl, after losing her family and home, finds herself drawn into the house by its proprietress and is quickly absorbed into its day to day workings. But then she learns how to read under the tutelage of the house's only male servant, and she begins to discover her own mysterious powers.