Une énigme policière inspirée par le reportage d’une journaliste de neuf ans. Quand une jeune fille retourne s’installer dans la ville natale de son père, sa quête de vérité la pousse à exhumer une affaire depuis longtemps enterrée..
Tout juste guérie d'une dépression nerveuse, Charlotte Bronn rentre chez elle où son mari Arnold va tenter de l'aider. Les parents de Charlotte étant très peu concernés par l'état de leur fille et celle-ci soupçonnant une aventure entre sa mère et son mari, elle tombe amoureuse d'un professeur d'université..
The plot of the film, which is in early development, is being kept under wraps, though Riley Sager’s book is centered on a young woman, Maggie, whose family fled their Victorian home 25 years earlier in an event that inspired her father to pen a best-selling nonfiction book claiming they experienced a haunting. Maggie, now an adult, doesn’t remember those events and doesn’t believe her father’s book. But when she inherits the old family home after her father’s death, she starts to question if there’s more to the house than she believed..
It's 1963 in rural Massachusetts, and Nora James has the usual worries of an eleven year-old girl:lipstick, first crushes, staying out of trouble at school...not easy when your teacher is the elderly Sister Concilia. And even harder when your parents are struggling to heal from an almost unbearable loss. Then tragedy strikes another Massachusetts family, the Kennedys, and shatters the fragile bonds holding the James family together, Nora, sent to live with her brittle Aunt Rose, soon learns who she is, what she wants, and what she must do to achieve it. She makes a decision that is both cruel and courageous. Nora's choice unlocks the way to what amounts to the rescue of her family. (Maureen Foley, writer/director of the film).
