In 1972, a young girl is abducted and murdered, and Montreal news reporter Ty Davis is drawn into a bizarre sequence of events when her body and those of her kidnappers are found in a 19th-century farmhouse in the Laurentian community of Saint Sauveur. Strange symbols on the floor, ancient words in a journal, and additional discoveries hint at something more than a child abduction gone wrong. Davis and his colleagues soon find themselves embroiled in a complex web of international conspiracy as their careers and lives are put in jeopardy.