During his son's baseball game a tax attorney catches a glimpse of a birthmark on a man's leg and his blood runs cold with the memories that come. When he was five years old he saw something he shouldn't have, went somewhere he never should have gone and paid harsh consequences. His eighteen year old son knows something is up with his dad and confides in his quiet girlfriend, who suffered early trauma of her own and begins to suspect that her boyfriend's father knows exactly what she went through as a child, may in fact have made the acquaintance of her family's killer long ago, and now both of them are determined to go back and find the truth about what lies in Betsy Klausmeyer's cellar.
