After losing a member of their family, the Coltrane’s are forced to move out of their home and relocate. Helen and her two teenage children, Lenore and Conrad move in with her reclusive, gun-loving brother-in-law in his remote home in the desert and have to adjust to a new life style. Things are complicated further when a young girl comes into their lives, a foster child, with an incredible story and a claim that Helen's late husband had agreed to take her in. Soon the family's grief turns to dread as they are subjected to a series of tragic, inexplicable incidents, which are too coincidental to be called accidents.