Yet­ta is a bright, quick teenage girl with a wild, search­ing spir­it. Sti­fled by her moth­er’s anx­i­ety, her father’s rules, and the path that’s been laid out for her, she craves free­dom, the edges of which she does­n’t know. But her fam­i­ly has rea­son to be cau­tious and restric­tive. Fear has wrapped itself around their shtetl. Jews are mys­te­ri­ous­ly dis­ap­pear­ing, and there are whis­pers of an impend­ing attack. When vio­lence comes to their door, Yet­ta is killed.

Her father, in his grief, fum­bles through his nascent knowl­edge of ancient texts and old mag­ic to bring her back. By some mir­a­cle, Yet­ta is returned – but although she looks the same, she is not the girl she once was. Yet­ta sens­es there is a secret her fam­i­ly is keep­ing from her. The answer resides, in part, in the crea­ture lurk­ing in the woods beyond the shtetl―something that may be of her father’s mak­ing, and a being that has plans of its own.