When her father, the Marsh King, escapes from prison, Helena must rely on all her survival skills to confront him for all the years he kept her and her mother captive in the wilderness.
Some thirty years after Arlis witnesses his father murdering a family, he runs into Kay, who happens to be the family's baby who was spared. Kay and Arlis suspect nothing about each other, but when his father returns, old wounds are reopened.