خلاصه داستان : پدری مجرد دو فرزند خود را به روستایی کارولینای جنوبی منتقل می کند تا شاهد رفتارهای عجیب و غریب دخترش باشد.

John James is a writer; his wife has left him. He moves with his two middle-school children to an isolated house off a dirt road in South Carolina. The property has an Indian burial mound, which fascinates his daughter, Louisa, who's entering puberty.