Anastasia Romanov is barely a child when she realizes she can see ghosts. She keeps it quiet in the Winter Palace for fear the spirits might harm her. Until Dimitri, the new kitchen boy, enters the palace. For Anastasia, he represents a thousand sensations she'd never experienced before: the fragility of a pure friendship, which becomes a home, while a forbidden love is forged between two teenagers who become each other's worlds. But, at the height of the war in Russia, one day in July 1918, their lives are cut short forever. The Romanov dynasty falls. Years later, shocking news forces Dimitri to make a decision. He knows Anastasia is dead, but the rumors are growing stronger: the Romanovs' youngest daughter is still alive. And he senses how he might find her: by searching for the best medium in the country.