Set in Illinois in a small, sleepy town along the Rock River, it tells the dark story of a widower who comes back from Maine to his ghost-ridden birthplace—with his dead wife’s ashes to scatter and with his six-year-old psychic daughter in tow—only to enter the nightmare world of a terrifying, centuries-old killer that has taken up residence. Or has the evil been there all along, rooted in his own haunted past?