故事发生在美国内战时期,主人公是两名护士志愿者——来自新英格兰地区并支持废奴主义的Mary Phinney(Mary Elizabeth Winstead)和支持南方联盟国的南方佳丽Emma Green(Hannah James)。Green家族在弗吉尼亚州的亚历山大市经营豪华酒店生意,北方联邦军1862年占领这座城市后,他们的酒店被改造成专门治疗战争伤员的「大厦之屋医院」(Mansion House Hospital)。
In the winter of 1982 three American boys find themselves stranded in a cable car with a dead body mid-air in the mountains of Norway, during a rare celestial event. What they are about to discover will affect their lives forever.