After the untimely death of his father, the boy is left in the eerie loneliness of a spacious country estate with his recently widowed stepmother. Struggling with the overwhelming task of parenting, his stepmother becomes distant from him, putting their fragile relationship at risk of falling apart. Amid the growing tension, the boy begins to hear unsettling sounds echoing through the corridors and is soon haunted by the presence of a grotesque creature with an unsettlingly familiar resemblance to his deceased father. When the boy’s warnings are dismissed as the imagination of a grieving child, a sinister entity tightens its grip on their crumbling lives.