1805. Amber Thomson, an actress at a London theatre, falls in love with Viscount Frederick Fryers. The young couple decide to run away and marry in secret, hiding it from their relatives. Frederick brings Amber to the secluded Carlisle Hall estate, where the girl is not allowed to live in peace—not only by a belligerent housekeeper, but also by ghosts.
2019. After Maud is left at the altar by her beloved, she travels to Italy, where she meets Count Carlisle. Two weeks later, Count Carlisle proposes to the girl, and she agrees. Arthur Carlisle brings Maud to his Cornish estate Carlisle Hall, where Maud faces crumbling walls, mysterious ghosts, and old family secrets. The lives of Amber and Maud have nothing in common, but their fates are tightly intertwined. While one sinks into an idyll of family happiness, the other tries to unravel a tangled web of mysteries. Yet everything here is far from what it seems at first glance.