Successful writer, Nick Lester returns to his home town of Shrives Island after a long absence, with wife, Jessica in tow, they find that the town is welcoming after purchasing the house on the hill, a known haunted house. The hauntings begin immediately, after someone sprayed her completed art works with acrylic paints, ruining them, on discovering twin children who appear to them and warn them the house is imbued with the powers of an ancient Boab tree.