At outset, a reporter has a mission to uncover a mystery surrounding a family. He becomes compelled by the photographs that Simone Anderson displays at the Thorne gallery.
Somehow the journalist can detect Simone's dark secret:
"She had been four years old when she became aware of this inner darkness, and she had been a bit over five when she began to understand where it came from.
The other little girl, The unseen, unheard child whom no one else