A couple awaiting divorce embark on one last voyage on their beloved barge. Each week, as they moor in a new town, there’s a local mystery to be solved, but as their investigation skills go from strength to strength, their fraught relationship is anything but plain sailing.

Brussels, 1980s. Trapped in a house of horror by their monstrous father, a manipulative pastor, his daughters must each find a way to freedom. But how can they keep that hope alive when the oldest sister is the brainwashed accomplice of their captor — even when he starts killing?

Despite being an ultra-orthodox, unmarried young woman, Michal, the protagonist, has no intention of being passed from her father’s control to her husband’s authority. She dreams of becoming a successful adman at the company run by her father.

18-year-old Hind sees her chance to break free from her controlling mother, when her estranged grandmother Faiza appears at their doorstep for help. Only when the three women confront mistakes from the past, Hind will discover how family can become a superpower in disrupted times.