Teenager Megan (Elisabeth Harnois),
still distraught over her twin sister Sophie's suicide, reluctantly agrees to
join her friends on a summer trip to a lake house in the bayous of Louisiana.
On the way, at a gas station, they meet Nick (Tyler Hoechlin), who provides the
group with information on voodoo and other local superstitions.
As soon as they arrive at the
house, Megan suspects Sophie is trying to communicate with her, as a solstice —
the time when our world and the next are closest — approaches. Megan goes
running and trips, splitting her nail (something she had foreseen in several
nightmares). As she limps back to the house, she meets a suspicious local
resident, Leonard (R. Lee Ermey); inside his pickup truck, she finds a hat
identical to one Sophie had owned.
The night before the solstice,
Nick joins the group at the house for dinner. Megan tells him about Sophie's
key chain, something she is trying to get rid of but it keeps returning, and
that she thinks she is being haunted by Sophie's lost ghost. The six of them
later go swimming and Nick calls for any spirits with wine; Megan is dragged
under the water. Megan then, advised by Nick, wraps the key chain in a white
cloth and buries it outside, which he says should expel the spirit. She goes
for a bath, finding mud running out of the taps, and then sees the key chain
lying on the floor.
The following day, Megan goes to
Leonard's house and, inside, finds a young girl's bedroom (presumably his
daughter); newspaper cuttings explain a young girl called Malin disappeared
from the town a year earlier. Megan realises she is being haunted by Malin, not
Sophie. Megan takes Nick to where she tripped on her run, followed by the group
of friends, including Christian (Shawn Ashmore) who brings a gun. Nick and
Megan get split up, and Christian almost shoots Nick. Megan then digs up
Malin's body and finds that the key on the key chain is for Malin's bicycle,
which was buried with her. They call the local police.
Christian finally admits that the
year before, when they all came to the lake house without Megan, he and Sophie
were on a drive and accidentally hit Malin. In fear of being arrested, they
buried her in the forest, and Sophie later committed suicide as she could not
bear the guilt. Malin's ghost appears, and Christian runs away towards the
road. Megan chases him through the forest but before she can reach him, he is
hit by the police car that had been called out.
The ending shows Megan at Malin's
grave. When Leonard arrives home, he finds Malin's key chain on the porch, put
there by Megan. Megan and Nick decide to go to the city to start a life
together.



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