It is the 1960s and the charismatic and cunning Spenser Mallon is a campusguru, attracting the devotion and demanding sexual favours of his youngacolytes. After he invites his most fervent followers to attend a secretritual in a local meadow, the only thing that remains is a gruesomelydismembered body - and the shattered souls of all who were present. Yearslater, one
man attempts to understand what happened to his wife and hisfriends by writing a book about this horrible night, and it's through thisprocess that they begin to examine the unspeakable events that have boundthem in ways they cannot fathom, but that have haunted every one of themthroughout their lives. As each of the old friends tries to come to gripswith the darkness of the past, they find themselves face to face with theevil triggered so many years earlier...