安妮卡辭去在都市的教職工作,陪著身為牧師且充滿理想的先生移居鄉下,還有兩個可愛貼心的兒女相伴,擁有令人稱羨的恬淡生活;先生卻在此時說服她一同收養了一個無家可歸的11歲男孩卡爾,家裡開始出現各種「意外」,像是愛狗離奇死亡、或是安妮卡無故被反鎖在地下室,加之卡爾的情緒陰晴不定,讓安妮卡愈加不安…她將從這個男孩的過去挖掘出什麼樣的秘密?又能不能成功用愛陪他走過人生中最徬徨無助的這一段路呢?Not long after Carl is adopted, his new mother begins seeing a different side of him than anyone else. As she becomes more and more distressed, bizarre things continue happening, and the family slowly begins to see that maybe their mother isn't imagining things, and there's more to Carl than originally thought.