Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia; Helena "Bodice-ripper" Carter sheds her genteel image to play the foul-mouthed local outcast in a mining town where male underground death is routine. Determined to avoid the fate of being married to death she changes her tune when she meets the charming Neil. But his death leads to her mental breakdown and her creation of a gruesome museum as a memoir to all those who've died in pit accidents. Macabre and wonderful.