When the bodies of seven missing persons wash up on the shores of a remote Indian Ocean island - all preserved as if they died yesterday, though they vanished decades apart - the world turns its eyes to Mwamba Island, a former quarantine station closed since the 1980s.
A Kenyan marine pathologist, Dr. Amani Kiroko, is sent to lead the investigation. The island's history is already dark: colonial experiments, military cover-ups, and an abandoned village where even birds won't land. But what begins as a forensic case soon unravels into a chain of interlocking mysteries.