“All islands hide a secret or a treasure. This one hides both.” New York, 1842. Blackwell Island, located in the East River in front of Manhattan is the gloomy place where the people who reject the conservative society of the moment are confined. Run by the iron fist of Mr. Scraugh and by the obscure Head Nurse, Miss Grady, dozens of criminals, prostitutes, orphans, lunatics and sick people are hoarded in its buildings. A prison, an...
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