An aging man lies bleeding to death in an alley. As onlookers start to gather around, he reflects on the life that he has lived.

A car crash victim, humiliated housewife and two repressed teens are connected by their relationships with hard-working therapist Viola, who helps them battle their addictions while two disillusioned detectives struggle with the mounting war against heroin distribution in the Cincinnati area.

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