Strasbourg, 1518. In the city square, a woman dances nonstop for days, and when hundreds of other women join her, the men declare a state of emergency. Pregnant Lisbet lives with her family, tending the bees that are their livelihood. Though Lisbet is apart from the frenzy of the dancing plague afflicting the city's women, her life is upended by the arrival of her sister-in-law. Nethe has been away for seven years, serving a penance for a crime no one will name—and it is a secret Lisbet must uncover.