On a lonely deserted highway a truck driver picks up a man carrying a sick child, asking where he came from knowing no villages or towns were in 100 miles of the highway the man replies Sorrel, the man and child are dressed in clothes you would see in films like Oliver and the Charles Dickens era, the driver takes the man and child to the nearest hospital and leaves them in emergency and drives off, the child is suspected of having an illness not seen since the middle ages which raises concern with the hospital, but not knowing where Sorrel is they arrange for the man to guide them as there may be some more cases of the illness, with a team of doctors they have to go in by helicopter but when they arrive there is no one to be seen, so they leave the man and fly out. The concern is why and where the town is and how to reach it and bring it into the 20th century so it is decided to build a bridge in order for the town to be accessed, that task is given to an engineering company where one of the employees named Brad Hannigan is given the job of site manager, and the granddaughter of the owner of the company Claudette is sent with Brad to look after the finance, what follows is a strange relationship with Brad and Claudette and strange dealings with town folk of Sorrel with many weird happenings and surprises. Then when they find out about Sorrel from another source all is not what is seems and Brad and Claudette get more and more involved with each other’s lives and things become very complicated