Living on a distant island with her father, Emmaline's childhood feels enchanted. She learns to love the natural world through her senses, as her father teaches her, but there are mysterious scents coming from the lining of their cabin's walls that her father will not explain. Nor will he explain the origin of the machine that seems to be creating the scents. Events conspire to thrust Emmaline out into the real world, where she will have to learn to understand her past in order to find her true love and understand herself.