Recently divorced, Jay Morton returns to her hometown of Pendle Bridge with her daughter Kate. She quickly secures a job helping to set up a museum at the sinister-looking Pendle House, now derelict and overgrown. But her new life takes a disturbing turn when she suspects she is being stalked. Then, whilst searching for artefacts in the attics at Pendle House, Jay stumbles across some extraordinary original masks and is intrigued by their malevolent and threatening eyes.