1956. Impregnated by her lover, Ivy Jenkins ends up in one of the monastery shelters for unmarried mothers—famously notorious in Britain and Ireland. Here, young women are tortured and humiliated, starved and made to do heavy work, and their children are taken away and sold for adoption to wealthy, childless couples… Present day. Young ambitious journalist Samantha Harper dreams of a story that would become a breakthrough for her career—and she accidentally stumbles upon a letter signed by someone called Ivy. In the letter, the unfortunate woman begs to rescue her from the hellish “shelter” before it’s too late. What happened? Did Ivy manage to escape? Samantha starts investigating this tragic story—and suddenly notices an extraordinary number of strange deaths among people connected to the “shelter.” What is it—witness cleaning? Or revenge for old sins? Samantha realizes that she and her loved ones could be in danger too…