Having established themselves as a favorite with alternative music fans, Phoenix continue their genre hopping explorations with their third album. The French group combines rock with soul, dance and electronica with an '80s influence. "The group concentrates on the visceral, and the results shine through in deceptively simple, richly textured songs ..."--Billboard.

At a girls' school in Virginia during the Civil War, where the young women have been sheltered from the outside world, a wounded Union soldier is taken in. Soon, the house is taken over with sexual tensions, rivalries, and an unexpected turn of events.