A series of cryptic phone messages and visions haunt a writer while he struggles to finish a novel. As they increase in intensity, he loses his grip on reality, eventually obsessing over an old mystery that will lead to horrific revelations about both him and his loyal wife.

After receiving a bill for his own funeral, a self-involved real estate appraiser finds himself in an inexplicable state and goes digging for answers all the while not knowing that he has become the test subject of a fringe science experiment carried out at an unusual site.