A Lunatic Asylum becmes a public library. In th 19th cent. one of the inmates commits suicide after her new baby is taken from her.Several generatioln later the child's descendant, now Canadian, returns to search her family history. . She disappears, and only a 19th century skeleton is found under the floor. A psychic nun decides to give the skeleton a Christian burial. This story is mingled with tstpories abolut other worker and custoers and their relationship. There are 8 murders.