A crotchety old woman heads out one morning to go bird-watching. Traveling to a nearby woods, in search of a spot to build her hide. She sets up camp and It's not long before she finds what she came for... and birds have nothing to do with it.
1907, Massachusetts. A scholar drifts from his path and finds himself in a house he assumed to be deserted - apart from a beguiling book containing dark secrets that exerts a powerful hold over those who come into contact with it.