Looking for some peace and quiet, Tom rents a isolated and small lakehouse, one marked by a legend of a lady that, drowns anybody she encounters and after screaming, haunts the surrounding woods. Tom neighbor, Al, who is mourning the death of his own husband is especially intrigued by that myth. Starting rather favorable, the rapport of Al and Tom slowly varies since the befriends a woman called Nina, for whom his suspicions that are damaging can't be shaken by Al.