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Pearl knows little of her father, Jacob, and elder sister, Row, who left her mother, Myra, when she was pregnant with her. Between them they make do, with Myra fishing and trading to make ends meet, travelling from island to island on Bird, the boat Myra’s grandfather made before he died. Whilst their life is a tranquil one, Myra still aches for the daughter she once lost. When a chance encounter reveals that Row might still be alive, Myra packs up six-year-old Pearl, and together they begin a dangerous voyage to The Valley.

Sinead - who is both resilient and vulnerable, insightful and insecure - spends her days supporting her ailing mother and appeasing Emerson, the man who owns her house and the diner where she works. She wants nothing more than to leave the town her own dark history is bound up in, but Emerson asserts his power over her, thwarting her progress at every turn. One day, Tobias, a mysterious rambler from the east coast, walks into the diner, and Sinead makes the impulsive decision to invite him into her life and home.

Amid the desolate wilderness of the Great Plains of Nebraska, a region so isolated you could drive for hours without seeing another human being, sits Hatchery House. Having served as a church, an asylum and an orphanage, Hatchery is now a treatment facility for orphaned or abandoned children with psychiatric disorders. Haunted by patients past and present, only the most vulnerable find a home within its walls. Dr Lorelei 'Lore' Webber, a former FBI psychiatrist, has almost grown used to the unorthodox methods used at Hatchery House.

Vor sechs Jahren musste die damals hochschwangere Myra hilflos zusehen, wie ihr Mann ihre älteste Tochter Row kidnappte und mit einem Boot über die dunklen Fluten davonfuhr. Sie hatte keine Chance, sie einzuholen. Denn die Erde ist nicht mehr, wie sie einst war: Seit der großen Klimakatastrophe gibt es kein Festland mehr, lediglich Archipele, die ehemaligen Bergregionen, auf die sich die verbliebenen Menschen gerettet haben. Doch nun bekommt Myra eine einmalige Chance: Mit ihrer jüngsten Tochter darf sie auf einem Boot mitreisen. Eine Chance auf eine Zukunft, auf ein neues Leben.