1872: the American merchant vessel "Mary Celeste "is discovered adrift off the coast of Spain. Her cargo is intact and there is no sign of struggle, but her crew has disappeared, never to be found.
As news of the derelict ghost ship spreads, the "Mary Celeste" captures imaginations around the world from a Philadelphia spiritualist medium named Violet Petra to an unknown young writer named Arthur Conan Doyle. In a haunted, death-obsessed age, the "Mary Celeste" is by turns a provocative mystery, an inspiration to creativity, and the tragic story of a family doomed by the sea. Based on actual events, spanning seas and continents, life and death, "The Ghost of the Mary Celeste" is a spellbinding exploration of love, nature, and the fictions that pass as truth."