In the heart of the Canadian woods, the environment is deteriorating. People have moved away and some have disappeared. When Claire Mowatt inherits her aunt's land, she arrives to find that the air, land and water have become polluted since the environmentally correct gated community Eternal City bought the island on Skeleton Lake. Claire knows she should just sell, but something compels her to hesitate. The longer she remains, the more she comes to believe that all is not as it seems with the town or with the residents of the wondrous Eternal City.