This is the story of Kya, a young girl branded as "marsh girl" by the locals after she learns to live on her own after her bein abandonned by her parents as a child. After fending for herself and getting to know the marshlands like noone else, Kya starts putting her knowledge down on paper and illustrating her own books. However, her lonely existence leaves her an outcast in the local town and when a local man is found murdered, she finds herself the prime suspect in the crime.