What if Jack the Ripper was a Jill? Scotland Yard inspector Frederick Abberline and Sherlock Holmes creator, Dr. Arthur Conan Doyle, believed the Ripper murders were committed by a woman. Were they right? Nurse and midwife Mary Pearcey faces the gallows but not for her role as "Jill the Ripper". Lured by love, hope and promises, Mary begins the Great Work by harvesting organs for an American surgeon who promises a cure for syphilis.