When the stones of her house begin to rattle and call out mysterious messages to her, Pauline Sinclair, age 99, knows she will not make it to her 100th birthday. She has lived a modest life in Mason Hall, a rural Jamaican village, educating herself with stolen books, raising her two children, surviving by becoming a successful ganja farmer in the area and experiencing both deep passion and true loss. Behind this seemingly benign façade, however, Miss Pauline has buried many secrets. To avenge her enslaved ancestors, she has built her house from the ruins of a plantation on her land. And she knows more than she has told about the disappearance of Turner Buchanan,  a white American man who came decades ago to claim her land. The whispering stones, Miss Pauline realizes, are telling her that she must make peace with the past before she dies.