When Nico returns from overseas to say farewell to his ailing mother, he discovers something monstrous is happening in the small town he once called home. As the list of grizzly murder victims begins to grow and the authorities fear the killer is a beast unlike anything they have ever seen, Nico senses a savage transformation within himself and uncovers the terrifying secret his family could never reveal.

After Sarah’s husband Albert dies in a domestic accident, she is given the freedom to move forward with her other lover Max. Soon Max finds something disturbing in Sarah's behaviour, and he begins to question if Sarah isn't the person she says she is? Max then mysteriously disappears, and Sarah’s orderly life is brought into chaos.