凯瑟琳是一个为了她和她的儿子能有更好的生活而苦苦挣扎的母亲。当她遇到老布鲁克，一个英俊的摩门教传教士并迅速与之陷入熊熊燃烧的爱情烈火之中。但是好景不长，凯瑟琳和她分居的丈夫的团聚让老布鲁克不能接受，虽然事情已经过去了，但是他会不惜一切代价来证明她是他的，他们注定要永远在一起！

Based on true events, Patrick and his wife Karen Connor are hired by the state to exhume bodies resting under a closed down reform school known for the sadistic torture and murder of young boys in the early 1900's. During this horrific excavation they are met with unnatural forces causing them to question their sanity and will to live.