But the house is already occupied, once by the past, and the haunting memory of what happened there a century ago; and now by its present owners, very much alive, a famous playwright and his research assistant, Michael.

In the fierce beauty of the volcanic landscape, in the persons of Perdita and Michael, past and present meet, violently. The weird, semi-deserted island of Lanzarote is the scene for the collision which reshapes the lives of the young lovers, as it did a hundred years ago.