Four years after the sudden death of his wife, novelist Mike Noonan is still unable to write and plagued by vivid nightmares about a summerhouse called Sara Laughs. Upon his return to the town with the summerhouse, he finds the town's inhabitants in the grip of a vindictive man. As Mike is drawn into the town's struggles, he is also drawn into the mystery of the summerhouse, and its escalating terrors.