Alice, a beautiful woman fleeing a loveless marriage, disappears into the crowds of modern London. Taking refuge in a Victorian schoolhouse haunted by a dreadful death, her life becomes entwined with the other residents' each of whom harbours a secret. And Tom, the failed musician who spends his days in the catacombs of London's Underground, becomes her lover. But she cannot resist another enigmatic man, who at first tantalizes her with sexual pleasure, then makes her his tool of terror…as she plunges into a torrent of passion and realizes too late where it is sweeping her…

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