Barlow is a hard-drinking, heavy-smoking, long-haired, and deeply unhappy aspiring writer who pulls a dozen rejection slips out of his mailbox every day while trying to get through his life with some semblance of purpose.

A psychology professor hires Lila to do tests, as she's hypersensitive in seeing into the past. She sees his old student and lover, who was murdered.

Psychics find themselves plotted against by a former colleague, who committed suicide after discovering animated, murderous puppets.

A woman tormented by ghostly apparitions and a professor of psychic phenomena investigate other-worldly disturbances and unlock the secret of a malevolent force reaching out for vengeance from beyond the grave.