Withdrawn and resentful after her mother's death, Erica sneaks away during Kinbrae's annual Fire Festival to the quiet and solitude of the next valley over, where the original village of Kinbrae stood before a landslide destroyed it one thousand years ago.
Solveig spins and weaves wool to keep herself and her mother alive after her father is presumed drowned at sea. Unable to take part in Kinbrae's Fire Festival because she is a girl, she sneaks away to the headland between her valley and the next to watch it.
Two girls from the opposite ends of time, drawn together by a single cataclysmic event…