A high school English teacher goes to disturbing lengths to protect his favorite students from bullies, and challenge the power of a wealthy patron within the community.

Something seems to lurk in the dark around an old house in Chicago. Soon enough, death will visit the new family that has just moved in there. Nobody is safe anymore, as they face a vicious unstoppable evil that will not rest until it has achieved its mission... But what is that mission? What does it want? And who is willing to make the ultimate sacrifice to stop it?

A young man, Ben Freidman (Scott Wilson) raised by wealthy adoptive Jewish parents in Beverly Hills, decides that he is ready to finally meet his biological parents. He faces disappointment upon learning of the death of his biological mother. His biological father, meanwhile, resides in a psychiatric care unit.