Fifteen years after the suspicious death of the McCully's eldest son, "That Twisted Monument," the pear tree from which seven year old William "fell," remains a centrifuge for rumor, suspicion, and terror on the Newport estate of Au Beau Verger. Unfortunately for Sarah, a somewhat timid 16 year old maid, fresh from Canada, and Native Newporter Paul, Sarah's co-worker, this fenced off arboreal oddity has also become a gnawing fixation. When circumstance and temptation cross paths one fateful evening, Sarah and Paul discover the true depth of the horrors waiting for them inside the iron rails. Trapped together, forced to play roles in someone else's nightmares, and hunted in their dreams by the dead boy, the entire fabric of their reality threatens to unravel; now, if they can only live long enough to go completely mad.