In the power of black birds

San Diego, 1918. The First World War and the influenza flu, the Spanish, harvest the dead. The world is on the verge of the apocalypse. People walk the streets in masks, and the government sends men to the front. The atmosphere of fear and confusion reigns. Sixteen -year -old Mary Shelley Black sees how people who have lost loved ones are trying to find comfort in spiritualistic sessions. The girl does not believe in ghosts, trusting scientific facts. Everything changes when the deceased in the war returns to Mary ... like a spirit. The ethereal echo of the person whom the girl loved. What does he want from her? What happens in this city? Are ghosts really exist? Mary should understand why her beloved returned from the other world and what fate he promises her to his mysterious and terrible appearance