‘Why do you stare from the window, Adelaide?I am waiting, but he does not come.’ Haunted by dread and shadows of tragedy, Fliss Gregory is driven to search for answers at a chateau retreat. Who is the strange “Adelaide”? What is the link between Fliss’s dead lover and the bullet hole of her recurring nightmare? Why is she afraid of the faded star Edana? And why is she drawn by the mysterious allure of the rose garden? As she and her therapist, Gérard, strive to unravel the dream, Fliss must delve into a past to which Edana seems to hold a vital key. Gérard resists the dangerous empathy between them as, together, he and Fliss peel away the layers to expose a shocking truth.