North Carolina Arts festival film musically-gifted young man is court-ordered to do community service at a church food bank where he creatively pursues the aloof pastor's daughter.

A ghost hunting expedition goes horribly wrong when the team finds out that an old ghost story is more than legend.

Unsettling events escalate into animal atrocities shortly after the Thompson family moves into their new home. Suspecting the neighbor's son Christian is behind the disturbing events, Laura Thompson digs deep into local legends of the paranormal. Faced with a growing sense of connection to the child, Laura begins to wonder what really is "the evil that lives next door?"