A powerful and bewitching family tragedy, a hymn to sisterhood.

It's summertime. Everything is either stifling or burning. In an isolated mill on the edge of a forest, a mother dies suddenly after a violent argument, leaving her three daughters orphaned and terrified: Alecto, the broken one, two months from turning 18; Penelope, the level-headed one; and her twin Ariane, the favorite. To stay together, they decide to hide their mother's death until Alecto turns 18. But the town’s mayor is prowling around the house, as are the ghosts of an obscure past...