After their aunt's death, Colleen and her daughters, Beth and Vera, move into the deceased woman's old, empty house. On their very first night in their new home, they are brutally attacked by burglars. The trauma runs deep and shapes the sisters into adulthood. Beth has found her personal coping mechanism in writing and is a successful horror author. Vera, on the other hand, still lives with her mother in the old house, suffers from paranoid delusions, and is increasingly losing her mind. Sixteen years after the incident, Beth returns to the scene of the crime—a decision that proves to be a terrible mistake...