A struggling novelist moves his wife and young son to an old country home where he intends to write his next bestseller, but when a presence begins to communicate with his son, the tortured family must fight to escape an evil that threatens to doom them to the house for eternity.

A convicted robber (lead villain) loses his wife and child after being sentenced to prison. While away he meets another crook who mentions a "job" he worked with a fellow thief that ended in a monumental score but also jail time for the pair. The second man hid the money at the home of his wife and teen-aged daughter before being sent to a separate facility than the first man including the lead villain. When he learns of the money's whereabouts he escapes prison to head for the family's farmhouse. When he arrives he masks his identity to the family, gaining their trust. But soon after they find the true reason behind his arrival. The story then turns into a fight for survival with the mother and daughter against the escaped prisoner.