A girl wakes in a large and mysterious home, searching for answers she finds a community struggling for survival lead by a content and odd man. Seeking answers Ava is thrust into leadership and struggles with the concept of death and unfamiliarity. Grappling with the problems of tribalistic impulses and the desire to protect and lead, her story becomes one of repetition as she fails to learn the lessons of her predecessors and dooms herself and her followers to repeat the same mistakes again and again, cursing their existence.