After a difficult divorce, Julia wants to start a new life and buys a nice old house in the suburbs of Boston, despite the fact that the former owner was found dead on the plot. Julia selflessly cultivates her garden and stumbles upon a skeleton that has been lying in the ground for about two centuries. The medical examiner reports that it was a young woman who died a violent death. The fact, not too pleasant for the owner of the house, is two deaths in the same place, under unclear circumstances... However, they shed light on the old documents left from the former mistress of the house .. Gradually, Julia discovers the mysterious story of the famous 19th-century surgeon and talented poet Oliver Wendell Holmes and the West End Ripper...