An invitation to spend time with childhood friends -- the Hickmans in their fairy-tale castle in a forest by the lake -- seems the perfect rest cure for solicitor Helena Flemming after cancer treatment. But when a man is found burned to death in a car on the edge of the castle estate, the lives of the residents are bizarrely affected. Caught in the middle, Helena teams up with former forensic pathologist John Eisenmenger to try to figure out why. They soon learn that the castle harbors secrets damaging not only to the Hickmans but also to Helena herself.