In a fit of depression, Laurel dives into the sea to rejoin the lost love of his life, Eleanora, but instead finds himself in a Victorian town.

Permanently shrouded in fog, Bunkerville was built in the mid-19th century by a wealthy industrialist whose son was mentally ill. His idea was to create a closed, self-sufficient world in which the boy could live a "normal" life with people like himself—all with mental problems. Discovering signs that Eleanora is on the island, Laurel sets out to find the lost love of his life, whom he thought never to see again. But his troubles have only just begun...