当赖安神秘地从他的亲生父亲那里继承了一所房子时，一个他认为早已死去的男人，他和他怀孕的未婚夫对未来寄予了很高的希望。但是对他已故父亲的好奇导致瑞安发现了一个黑暗的家族史...

When Mara returns to her childhood home of Belize for her father"s 70th birthday, she brings her new lover Aaron and hopes to reconnect with her estranged father and brother Ben who both live there. She is surprised when Linda, her father"s protégée, picks them up; Linda tells Mara that her father has just died. Mara is upset but lies about calling Ben. Linda brings them to a gathering in honor of her father and Mara and Aaron sleep alone at his house. Furious he wasn"t informed, Ben barges in on Aaron and Mara there, and tensions build between the three of them. Mara runs off for a tryst with Aaron, and Ben overdoses on their father"s medications, forcing Mara to care for him. The wake starts, an all-night affair, and Mara, drunk, reveals buried secrets about her father, changing irrevocably the relationships of those closest to him.