There is something mysterious about Ekely Hospital on the Nøtterø archipelago. Amelia is excited on her first day as a student nurse there in 1911. Does she really know what she is letting herself in for? There are tight moral rules to be followed and much she has to forsake, not least her love. Amelia soon begins to notice that the house lives a life of its own during the night. Ekely is brooding on dark secrets from the days when it was a mansion house …