在万圣节前夜，杀人狂迈克尔·麦尔斯逃走了，开始前往伊利诺伊州的哈登菲尔德，这是他最原始的屠杀地。一直负责治疗迈克尔·麦尔斯的精神病专家兰比尔·萨坦博士，警长弗兰克·霍金斯在疯狂寻找迈克尔·麦尔斯的下落，后者继续着他的残杀，并无情地接近着上次屠杀中唯一的幸存者劳瑞。劳瑞死里逃生所带来的创伤与压力，使她在精神上伤痕累累并开始疑神疑鬼，这也导致女儿凯伦与她渐渐疏远 。

Regine, a psychologically fragile young woman, is hiding away in the city, far from the dark and forbidding countryside of her traumatic childhood. She's struggling to construct the loving family she never had, and to rise above the events of the past above all, the disastrous home birth of her brother Isaac, which led to her mother's insanity and Isaac's apparent death. But the city is tense and hostile, and contains its own threats. An abusive relationship with the controlling psychiatrist who's treating her mother is already blighting Regine's life when the brutal murder of her grandmother raises a crucial question is Isaac still alive, and looking for revenge against a family which he feels has rejected him Driven to heal the wounds of the past and to reunite her family by connecting with the brother she's never met, Regine must return to the site of her previous traumas and confront the true source of her family's guilt. It could make sense of her life - or throw it into ...