What would happen if it were possible to travel back in time? What dangers might be involved? Would we be able to change history, as we know it? Or is that absolutely impossible? Would we be able to solve a mystery whose answer has lain unknown for 200 years? Would we be able to prevent the evil deeds, which occurred? Would it be right for us to do so? Andrea, a young woman from the 20th century, finds herself transported back in time through her fiancee's carelessness and is thrust into a confusing story that she only knows about from a novel. In 18th century Scotland, she is forced to decide whether to take the role of an observer or to try to change the course of history. In the end, she discovers that she is unable to change anything. She is the sole unknown variable in the story and she is pulled into the whirlpool of events and into a time of living, loving and dying."