Aurelie is an eleven year old girl. Her head pains from an unnamed injury and she lives in a twilight place between the now and a blurry nowhere. She's been sent to stay with her great uncle at a house retreat deep in the Oregon mountains. It's a somber sojourn of rainy days and empty moments, an inescapable present made only of listless naps and dizzy headaches. She eventually finds a fond hiding place in the house's attic. There amongst the shadows and forgotten things, she finds an enigmatic book with sealed pages. But surely what is truly sealed is Aurelie's past, the event of her head trauma, and far more. She is nearly lost of the whole of her dear memory and it will take a journey through those pages to find, and a slipping from this world to another, to another, and another...
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