Set in 1890s Missouri, against the backdrop of class distinctions, gender oppression, and the suffrage movement, THE SEER is about Sarah Richardson, a clairvoyant who watches in horror as her only sister is thrust into a carriage bound for the St. Louis City Lunatic Asylum. She is devastated to learn her sister has been blamed for her inadvertent role in an abused woman's murder. Too frightened to speak up, Sarah hides the truth that it should have been her in that carriage.
When her mounting guilt becomes too much, she heads to St. Louis, determined to regain her sister's confidence and prove herself worthy of forgiveness.
While working to heal their relationship, Sarah begins to have troubling psychic visions of a timid housewife who tries but fails to hide her bruises. Sarah sees it as an opportunity to atone for her past mistakes. She embarks on a perilous journey to help the woman and salvage her relationship with her sister. It's a decision that might cost her freedom, and her life.