The charismatic and cunning Spenser Mallon is a campus guru in the 1960s, attrac
ting the devotion and demanding sexual favours of his young acolytes. After he i
nvites his most fervent followers to attend a secret ritual in a local meadow, t
he only thing that remains is a gruesomely dismembered body - and the shattered
souls of all who were present. Years later, one man attempts to understand what
happened to his wife and his friends by writing a book about this horrible night
, and it's through this process that they begin to examine the unspeakable event
s that have bound them in ways they cannot fathom, but that have haunted every o
ne of them throughout their lives. As each of the old friends tries to come to g
rips with the darkness of the past, they find themselves face to face with the e
vil triggered so many years earlier...