Granddad is slowly dying and refuses to recognise his daughter. However, he gets on well with his grandson who seems to have suddenly obtained strange powers and doesn't want him to die.
Vincent lives in a decaying house with his ailing grandfather and fragile mother, Annabel. The grandfather hovers at the edge of death, seemingly at Vincent's command. As Annabel attempts to free her father from the strange spell he is under, she discovers Vincent's dark secret and the truth about herself.