Marie, mute, contacts her sister living in the UK since 12 years after the death of their father. Sarah comes back to France for the funeral. But one night, two burglars come in the house and take the two girls hostage.
After surviving an attempt on her life, a reclusive mystery author discovers that her nanny has stolen her identity, forcing her to go to extreme lengths to get her children back.
Based on a Basque folk tale, ‘Patxi herrementaria’, collected by priest, archaeologist and anthropologist José Migel de Barandiarán in 1903, the story is set in the Basque region in 1845, in a universe inhabited by mythological d