From Southampton's lowlands to an isolated village in Suffolk, from 1913 to the early 1970s, an evocative novel, the moving story of three sisters haunted by the bonds of blood and secrecy.
For Vivian and Nellie Marsh, the death of Rose, their older sister, sounds both a misfortune and a liberation. Admittedly, the two young women see their pillar disappear, the one that raised them at the death of their parents, but is it not also an opportunity to get rid of a tutelage sometimes suffocating?
The arrival of a man comes to question what united them and to compromise the promise made to Rose to remain always welded and to be protected from the torments of the heart.

Twenty years later, an event will provoke the reunion of Vivian and Nellie. And the two sisters have no choice but to go back to where it all began, in this little country cottage.
The opportunity to dive back into family history, to finally understand what Rose was trying to protect and discover his secret, a secret so heavy that it continues to weigh on the women of the Marsh family