Alicia returns to the sinister mansion she fled as a child—a home that has never harbored happy childhoods—now as a young mother. Accompanied by her husband and nine-year-old daughter, Nora, Alicia seeks to rebuild her life while being forced to confront a past she thought was buried and a body that refuses to die: that of Victoria, the possessive family matriarch, who has fallen into a deep coma and survives connected to a machine, and for whom young Nora begins to feel an unhealthy fascination.
