When people in their hometown begin dying on the anniversary of an accused witch's execution, a depressed journalist and his teenage sister set out to uncover the truth behind a local legend.

Max and his girlfriend Hannah travel to the rural South to spend Christmas with Max's eclectic family. When Hannah gets bitten by a deer, strange things begin to occur.

When his girlfriend visits him during winter break, an agoraphobic twentysomething begins to suspect that his house is haunted.