Set in a technocratic empire, humanity lies cold and subjugated beneath the boot of an inhuman authority. But hidden within its suffocating body are those who fight to reignite the fire at its heart.

Maria suffers from the strangest illness; it resembles cancer but with one distinct difference: it somehow connects Maria to the fate of a 15th century woman named Donna Maria. Maria begins to time travel, gradually discovering the absolute brutality of history. She learns that Donna Maria was a Hungarian princess taken to a Bursa harem as a concubine of Ottoman's Sultan.