To a give inn town a young man with him girlfriend returns. It is the last member of a family who, without knowing it, is going to fulfill an old curse: to end another family who many years before had killed him relatives. A psychiatrist helps the police to unravel the atrocious crime, in which they are themselves implied ghost and living deads.

An axe murderer terrorizes a small Northern California mountain community, while two young computer-obsessed adults attempt to solve the killings.