Catherine Clare reluctantly trades life in 1980 Manhattan for a distant house within the tiny hamlet of Chosen, New York, after her husband George lands a job instructing artwork historical past at a small Hudson Valley faculty. At the same time as she does her finest to remodel the outdated dairy farm into a spot the place younger daughter Franny might be pleased, Catherine more and more finds herself remoted and alone. She quickly involves sense a sinister darkness lurking each within the partitions of the ramshackle property—and in her marriage to George.