Despite his mother’s deathbed warning that he should never visit Gowanus Falls, Ben Preston travels to his mother’s hometown and stumbles into the media frenzy surrounding a mass grave of mummified bodies discovered only hours before his arrival. In light of the gruesome discovery, the innocent curiosity and questioning about his mother’s life and his father’s identity leads to suspicion from the residents, threats from local officials and ultimately to a confrontation with the corrupt justice court system. His blinding curiosity to discover the reason for these threats stirs up the collectively frightened memory of this sleepy little town, and disturbs previously unknown details about the long forgotten and unsolved murder of a schoolteacher. The disturbance of this specific case ultimately acts as a stressor, causing the schoolteacher’s murderer to re-emerge. As Ben sifts through the final pieces of this disturbing puzzle of facts - linking the mass grave, the bludgeoned teacher, and his own past - a spree killer secretly bloodies his way toward Ben.