When he looses his job, his marriage disintegrates, and his father has a debilitating stroke, Andy throws up his hands and moves back to California and the house where he grew up, hoping to help the old man mend and heal himself. Melvin, Andy's father has a remarkable recovery, due largely to Andy's good work, and Andy discovers there really is no place like home. Memories of his happy childhood surround him, and when he discovers the Hancock House mansion across the street is about to be torn down, he tells his dad about Louie, the skeleton in the attic, and Melvin makes him tell the police. From there on, murderous behaviors come to light, Andy is reunited with his childhood sweetheart, Annie, now a forensic pathologist with the county, and a strange lady in black arrives in town, stalking Hancock House, seeking the bodies of her dead children.