Eline Jehaes, a young journalist, is stranded with car trouble in Koolbeke. She goes looking for help in this isolated village on the banks of the Durme but discovers she is not welcome there and strange things are happening.<\/p>\n
Her curiosity is piqued when she notices a group of people living there with an exceptional, inherited disorder.<\/p>\n
She takes shelter with Sylvia, the proprietress of the inn \"The Cabbage Pits. When the body of a young, pregnant woman is retrieved from a cesspool, Eline starts digging deeper into the past. She must find out what happened and why a dense veil of secrets hangs over the village.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"