Washed-up horror novelist Owen Slater has hit rock bottom following his exploitation of a family's tragedy in one of his best-selling novels. But, when paranormal investigator Jack Grady recruits him for his subsequent investigation in the town of Still Meadows (the setting of Owen's book) Owen sees this as the perfect opportunity to redeem himself.

When a young gay man has unprotected sex without revealing his HIV status, guilt propels him down a rabbit hole of memory, regret, and surreal manifestations of his past.