After the mysterious passing of his wife, a Mild-tempered Norwegian farmer named Karl Johansen finds himself the prime suspect in her death. Weight-down by regrets of his past, he is dogged by strange and disturbing visions of monsters on his farm. He becomes convinced that evil forces are to blame for all his problems and that he must do whatever he can do to protect his daughters and grandson from them. And from the townsfolk who hate his family.