After Fabian Hightower is killed in a car crash, his mother, Alex, an attractive and successful business woman, starts to have a series of increasingly terrifying psychic experiences. Recently separated from her husband, she lives alone, surrounded by reminders of Fabian - a portrait, a gift of red roses sent before he died. She consults a medium, only to have the medium stop in mid-session and refuse to continue, terrified of something but unwilling to reveal what. Alex becomes desperate; she is now haunted by Fabian at every turn, by his pleas of "Help me, Mother". She begins to look into his past life, realising how little she knew her strange and beautiful son. What she finds at first worries and then sickens her. The more she uncovers, the more she realises her safety, and even her life, are in jeopardy. Somehow, she knows, she has to free herself from Fabian's spirit and from the cunning and evil that she is only beginning to understand...
