Jean (Catherine McCormack) is a photographer that is haunted by a century-old double homicide. She travels with her husband (Sean Penn), her brother (Josh Lucas) and his girlfriend (Elizabeth Hurley) to the scene of the crimes to investigate.

As Jean delves deeper into the case files, she finds evidence that the man convicted and put to death for the killings may not have been the murderer. The sole survivor of the slaughter was a woman whose unhappy life mirrors Jean’s. Past and present collide when a cataclysmic storm burgeons into jealousy and suddenly it becomes clear to Jean who the real killer is.