Psychiatrist Nadine Lavoie has a true desire to help people put their demons at rest. In the lockdown ward of a psychiatric hospital, she is in her element. But Nadine doesn't want to look too closely at her own past, because there are whole chunks of her life that are black holes. When a distraught woman, Heather Simeon, is brought into the Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit after a suicide attempt, Nadine gently coaxes her story out of her--and learns of some troubling parallels with her own life. Digging deeper, Nadine is forced to confront her traumatic childhood, and the damage that began when she and her brother were brought by their mother to a remote commune on Vancouver Island. She has no choice but to face what terrifies her the most ... and fight back. Sometimes you can leave the past, but you can never escape.