When a dark force kills his mother. Alex is sent to live with his aunt. There he discovers that he and his housemates can take on the personas of Hercules, Harry Houdini and Sherlock Holmes to fight the dark forces that live within all of us.

A struggling actor who's just landed a gig as a serial killer on a new TV drama ends up murdering a friend and hiding the corpse inside an ottoman in his apartment, just minutes before party guests are set to arrive.