Sian Davis

うっそうとした山奥にたたずむ小屋を訪れた、ミア（ジェーン・レヴィ）をはじめとする5人の若者。小屋で「死者の書」という不気味な書物を見つけた彼らは、はからずも邪悪な死霊をよみがえらせてしまう。解き放たれた死霊はミアにとりつき、若者たちに襲い掛かる。おぞましい姿に変ぼうしたミアと戦いながら山から脱出しようとする若者たちだが、死霊の力によって行く手を阻まれてしまう。助けを呼ぶこともできぬまま、一人、また一人と、彼らは死霊にとりつかれ……。

Paul (Macfadyen), a prize-winning war journalist, returns to his remote New Zealand hometown due to the death of his father, battle-scarred and world-weary. For the discontented sixteen-year-old Celia (Barclay) he opens up a world she has only dreamed of. She actively pursues a friendship with him, fascinated by his cynicism and experience of the world beyond her small-town existence. But many, including the members of both their families (Otto, Moy), frown upon the friendship and when Celia goes missing, Paul becomes the increasingly loathed and persecuted prime suspect in her disappearance. As the violent and urgent truth gradually emerges, Paul is forced to confront the family tragedy and betrayal that he ran from as a youth, and to face the grievous consequences of silence and secrecy that has surrounded his entire adult life.