Eight years after his wife and son go missing, a man receives a phone call leading him to a rural town that holds the key to their disappearance.

In order to pursue a serious career in acting, Carmela Hayslett hangs up her top hat and retires her popular horror hosting personality, Roxsy Tyler. The problem is... she's the only one who's moved on. Her former co-hosts live to badger her and the fan base she left behind refuses to support her movie career. Meanwhile, locked in a little box somewhere in Hayslett's psyche, Roxsy Tyler is alive, well, and ready repossess the actress's body!

Eliza establishes a unique relationship with the spirit of a diarist named Alfred whom pens replies to Eliza in her journal but the friendship turns terrifying when Alfred demands to be released from the confines of the book's pages.