Liz is a struggling actor living in Brooklyn. When she learns that her famous, reclusive, singer-songwriter uncle committed suicide and that she and her brother are the primary beneficiaries in his will, she decides to leave the city and move into his house in upstate New York. Once there, she explores her uncle's history and the ghosts, real and metaphorical, that may have been haunting him.

A reserved, introverted writer's path collides with an unstoppable, fiery, extroverted actress who makes it her mission to coax the writer's inner extrovert into the spotlight.

How hard could it be? One dark night, a masked assailant with a very large knife stalks and attacks a young couple. Only once they come face to face do predator and prey discover that the massacre won't proceed as planned. What happens next is a series of unfortunate events.