Devastated after losing their parents, Annalea and Mae return to southern Louisiana to heal and come to terms with their loss.

Instead, their loneliness and longing awakens a presence buried deep under the swamp, in the roots of the cypress trees... A lost soul tied to the land, refusing to pass on.
 
Hate had brought it there, and hate and vengeance would keep it there, haunting the living until another's sense of loneliness and betrayal would match its own.