A young girl who has been brought up alone by an elderly aunt is, upon her death, sent to live with her closest relatives, a chaotic bohemian family living in a big old Victorian house. She discovers a ghost in the attic, a young Victorian girl of her own age that only she can see and an inhabitant of the house from 100 years before. Lucy keeps going back and forth between the disheveled present and the well-postured past as Alice tries to entice Lucy to stay in the past with her — genuinely, at first, but then with an obsessive overtone. Lucy finds herself darting back and forth, unable to decide what era she was truly meant to be in.....