When the stones of her house begin to rattle and shift and call out mysterious messages to her in the middle of the night, 99-year-old Pauline Sinclair 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, and experiencing both deep passion and true loss with her beloved baby father. But Miss Pauline has buried many secrets. To avenge her enslaved ancestors, she has built her house, stone by stone, 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 to Mason Hall decades ago to claim her land. The whispering stones are telling Miss Pauline that she must make peace with the past before she dies.