“The devil killed my own body. I cannot battle, I cannot find. I cannot free of charge her. You must. You will be the one. We speak to the inactive.”

Soon after hearing these terms, uttered to her by a vintage Romanian woman bleeding to death in the pub, detective Eve Dallas begins to notice that her newest case has feature a variety of interesting side-effects: visions of the deceased, instant familiarity with rooms she’s never seen before, and fluency in Russian. Furthermore, there is apparently a force within her, a soul apart from her own, that won’t allow her rest until she’s found Beata, the outdated woman’s great-granddaughter, whose disappearance 8 weeks prior continues to be a mystery. Eager to be free of her fresh “presents,” Eve pursues the facts until she discovers a link between Beata’s disappearance as well as the disappearance of eight additional young women, most of whom attended the same dance classes, non-e of whom were ever heard from again.