Following the untimely death of his father, a young boy is left in the eerie solitude of a sprawling country estate with his recently widowed stepmother. Struggling to cope with the overwhelming task of parenthood, his stepmother withdraws, leaving their fragile bond in danger of collapse. Amid mounting tensions, the boy begins to hear disturbing sounds echoing through the halls, and is soon haunted by the presence of a grotesque creature that bears an eerie, familiar resemblance to his late father. As the boy’s warnings are dismissed as the imagination of a grieving child, the sinister entity tightens its grip on their crumbling lives.