When Ellen, the head of the Graham family, goes away, his daughters begin to reveal increasingly cryptic and secret messages about their ancestral origins. The more he discovers, the more he finds himself in the situation of trying to prevent the sinister fate that he seems to have inherited from realizing. Every time they have a trauma, unexplained things begin to happen and their façade of normality is shaken, exposing emotional fissures in the family as a whole.