In Jackson Square in the French Quarter a tarot card reader told Polly she would be a success. 30 years later, Polly is a respected professor with good friends and two happy daughters. When Polly falls of a restoration architect shadoes of the past rise out of the poisoned ground of New Orleans as thick and deadly as the toxic waters of the flood. As two broken pasts collide in an uncertain present, Polly is determined that her children will never be victims of the evil around them.