Murder, lies and utter deceitfulness are only a few of the happenings in the once so quiet town of Denny's Grove. Upon hearing of her father's death, Rosemary Wheaton, a young girl of nineteen, rushes home in spite of sickness, to visit her father's grave in the St. Xavier's Cemetery. She feels no significant difference in her childhood town until she recovers, discovering a veil of darkness consume its once so happy atmosphere. When close friends begin to be killed, all heads turn towards the secretive undertaker and his son, Nicholas.