Damian Jonathan Adare's happiness in grand rustic mansion Winterfern is spoiled when the demise of firstborn daughter Audrina wrecks his marriage. The second daughter, again called Audrina, is haunted by referring nightmares, especially of a sexual group abuse attack, and taunted by her half-sister Vera, whose mother dies in a staircase fall. Naive estate manager's son Arden Lowe, the one who tried to stand up to the rapist party, gives Audrina true love and the courage to 'run away' from overprotective Damian to marry him, but Damian lures them back home by commissioning would be-architect Arden a lucrative contract to modernize the whole mansion. Vera seduces him and gets expelled again, while recurring nightmares force the men to tell the whole macabre truth.