1793. Jean Verdier, a young officer of the Republic, is sent with a detachment to the coast of Brittany to arrest the Marquis Justinien de Saller, hiding among the ruins of an old tower. When the soldiers reach the place, they fall into a trap—yet the aristocrat agrees to surrender on one condition: before the arrest, Jean must hear his story. The story of how, forty years ago, several people after a shipwreck ended up on the wild shores of Newfoundland—the story of cold, fear, and how loneliness and a maddening hunger create monsters. Monsters that still walk this land to this day…