Sid is a seductive, sophisticated, and amoral teenager from New York, sent to live with a police chief and his family in the idyllic Mississippi town where his mother grew up. Among them is the chief's sharp-witted, punk-rock daughter, Zoey. Resisting their mutual attraction, Sid and Zoey find themselves drawn into a dark, hidden world beneath the town's picture-postcard facade — and a paranormal puzzle that may well get them killed (if they don't kill each other first). It's a fish-out-of-water tale focused on an unlikely pair with plenty of scares.