Sixteen years have passed since Grace was locked up, at the age of sixteen, for the cold-blooded murders of her employer Mr Thomas Kinnear and his housekeeper/lover Nancy Montgomery. Her alleged accomplece in the crimes, James McDermont, paid the extreme sentence of the law and was hanged on November 21 1843. But some thought Grace was innocent, and her sentence has been commuted to life imprisonment. After a spell in the Lunatic Asylum, it has been decided that she is neither mad nor dangerous, although she now claims to have no memory of the murders. Dr Simon Jordan, an expert on amnesia listens intently to Grace's account trying to wake the part of Grace's mind which lies dormant and then what will he find? Was Grace a female fiend, a femme fatale, the real murderer of Nancy Montgomery? Or was she a weak and unwilling victim of the violent James McDermont?
