There are some ties that cannot be broken – like the maternal bond between a mother and her daughter… and the psychic link between a killer and his victim.

When Al and Kellie, and her six-year-old daughter Hailey, move into a newly renovated townhouse in Montreal, they know all about the tragedy of its former residents: A single mother and her teenage daughter were evicted from the building, prompting the young girl to commit suicide. In time, they discover that her suicide was not the end of the girl's tragedy. Audio recordings lead them to believe that she has returned to her home… And someone else has followed her.

As Al becomes obsessed with a decades-old murder mystery, Kellie realizes that an unhappy ghost is clinging to her like a new mother… and the spirit of a cold-hearted killer is trying to sever all of their family ties.

In life, people can be tormented by their own crimes. The same may be true in death – angry spirits become imprinted on the place where they lost their humanity.

In the town of Wilder, Kentucky, a nightclub stands on the banks of the Licking River – one of the few waterways in the world that flows true north. Club owner Bobby Mackey has heard tales that the river draws murderers and Satanists to the area like a great magnet, and that there have been times when the waters ran red with blood. Bobby doesn't believe the stories, even after his wife Janet and employee Carl are attacked by the dead.

Deep in the bowels of the club stands an old slaughterhouse well, harboring an evil older than the building itself. When the time is right, it will rise to attack Janet’s unborn baby, and claim Carl's immortal soul.