Plot Summary:After driving husband Martin to infidelity and catching him with another, mentally unstable author Jade returns to her New Zealand home. The plan is to write a book based on the town's history, helped by the local school teacher and her college thesis protégée, and visit her father Christopher. As her editor later explains, her suspicions concerning ever more locals stem from a pathological mental condition. However, more then just paranoia comes with the horse riding incident which killed her ma, an obsessive guilt matter for her and Christopher.
Jade Harper是一位成功的女作家,但是却患上轻度精神分裂症。一天,她发现自己的丈夫和编辑有着暧昧的关系,于是她就以写乡村历史为藉口,逃避去了出生地Hopewell。可是父亲对她极其冷淡,因为他仍然为Jade Harper母亲的死而对她耿耿于怀。然而Jade Harper偶然间发现了母亲死亡背后的秘密,于是她开始着手调查......