What is the story of the Self-Imprisoned? This novel is the chronicle of the life of Judith Margaret Freilicht, who was born in 1890, and her mother, who died in childbirth, named her Kala. Elusive, stubborn, and eccentric, Kala is a mystery to the town of Sahin in the province of Eden, New York, to her family, to her husband, to her children; the beauty with red hair faces her surroundings and circumstances like a sleepwalker crossing a dreamlike landscape. She is a woman whose audacious relationship with a black wandering fortune teller, Tyrell Thompson, marked her life. The myth is narrated by Kala's granddaughter, partly to touch it, to understand it: Why does blood bind us and blood is voiceless memory.