New York City, late September 2001. The walls of the city are papered over with photos of the missing. Cora Bradys father is there, the poster she made taped to columns and bridges. When a letter arrives from an aunt she didnt know existed in Ireland with the offer of a new life.

County Donegal, 1974. An eclectic group of artists known as the Screamers arrives in Burtonport and moves into the old schoolhouse down the road from where Risn lives with her older sister Mire. Alternately kind and cruel, brilliant artist Mire is a mystery to Risn, as is Mires relationship with the boy next door, Michael. When the Screamers look to hire an artist in residence, Risn enlists Michaels help to get Mire the job, setting in motion a chain of events that will put an ocean between the sisters and threaten to tear them apart forever.

Burtonport, 2018. Lyca Brady lives in a sprawling old house with her mother, Cora, and great aunt, Ro. Abortion has just been legalized in Ireland, and Lyca is struggling to find herself outside her mothers activism. An unexpected message from a childhood friend sends Lyca searching her houses mysterious attic.