In 2005, Natalie Burg was invited to be an au pair for a family in Sweden. She asked no questions; she simply dropped her whole life and went. Who wouldn't want to spend a year of their twenties gallivanting around Europe, having adventures by night and nannying by day? What happened, however, was something significantly different. There was no gallivanting. There weren't even children to nanny. There were teenagers who had no use for a nanny, horses wearing coats, a mother intent on building a new career within a metaphysical, new-agey, pseudo-religious sect, and an insane amount of house cleaning. And all of this happened on a remote farm, miles from the closest city. Oh, and there's some romance (of sorts), backstabbing and several instances of attempted fraud in there too.