"Roy is the nice guy who finishes last. Sick of his current situation, he accepts an invitation to have Christmas dinner with the beautiful and strangely alluring Emilia. Once at dinner, Roy realizes that Emilia and her oddball brother (Edward) are not what they seem."
-A graduate student trying to complete her research on a book project she hopes will help her down-on-her-luck mother brings friends to a house with a mysterious past, where the group unwittingly summon an evil entity who makes the home part of its terrifying game.
James Gibson is an ex-con who has spent his life in and out of prison. One day, his life turns around when he settles down, meets the love of his life and has a child with her, but an unforeseeable tragedy strikes and his life is never the same.