A hospital nurse pieces together the haunted past of a 100-year-old psychiatric patient.

She was loved, she was a princess, heir to the throne - but the childhood fairytale turned to lifelong nightmare for Mary Tudor, Henry VIII's first child. When Henry divorced her mother and married Anne Boleyn, Mary became an outcast and a threat to the Protestant succession. By a twist of fate, on the death of her brother, she became queen at last in 1553, but her attempts to make England Catholi...

Based on the filmmaker's collection of newspaper cuttings the film presents private moments that give strange glimpses into everyday life.