The bizarre and mysterious suicide of the Wendolyn’s patriarch brings the dysfunctional, pharma family back together. While the family members squabble over their dwindling inheritance, an ancient curse preys on their greed and arrogance. The Wendolyn’s made billions on painkillers, but no drug can kill the pain that they’ll soon endure.

　　The main character is Dr. Max Holst, a successful neurosurgeon. One day an intense little man named Steinmetz shows up, who has the real ability to create objects out of thin air, using only his mind. As no one believes him at first, he is held at a ward for mental patients, but manifests the key to his door and escapes. As he has a special interest in Dr. Holst, Steinmetz subsequently invites Holst to his large mansion, which is full of expensive paintings and sculptures, and proves to him that he can in fact materialise objects. Steinmetz’s abilities are evolving by leaps and bounds, and is progressing from being able to create objects only to being able to create living things. His ultimate ambition is to be able to create a human being. He tells Dr. Holst that if he will only perform a certain brain operation on him, Steinmetz will become able to attain his goal. He’s got all the necessary equipment set up in his basement. Dr. Holst, however, is too spooked by the whole thing to agree to this mad scheme, and refuses. Steinmetz then sets about manipulating Holst’s life, to pressure him into performing the operation. By then Steinmetz has become able to create a temporary human being, and in the hope that he can perhaps make his own creation perform the operation, he manifests a doppelganger of Dr. Holst. This double proceeds to take over Dr. Holst’s life, creating chaos for him professionally and personally. And then Dr. Holst starts fighting back. The ending has the dual virtue of being both unexpected and satisfying.

　　在大雨瓢潑的星期五，帕克夫人（Kassie Wesley DePaiva 飾）突然身體不適，跌倒路旁的水坑中痛苦死去。該事件給她的家人以不小的打擊，三個孩子伊莉絲（安拜·柴爾德斯 Ambyr Childers 飾）、蘿絲（朱莉婭·加納 Julia Garner 飾）和羅瑞（Jack Gore 飾）憂傷不已，男主人弗蘭克（比爾·薩奇 Bill Sage 飾）卻似乎格外震驚。在孩子們的眼里，爸爸是至高無上權力的象征，女孩們渴望像同齡人一樣快樂自由成長，卻無奈必須服從爸爸的命令。籠罩在淡淡悲傷中的帕克家，隱藏著令人不敢直視的恐怖秘密，一本日記揭示著家族注定被詛咒的命運和歷史。　　與此同時，小鎮周圍的人口失蹤事件和意外被洪水沖出的手指骨，引起了有心人的關注，帕克家的秘密即將大白天下……

　　立志成為漫畫家的高中生林明子，經同學介紹來到一個奇怪的美術教室。這個教室沒有招牌也沒有宣傳，甚至在電話本上都查不到，只是一處坐落在海邊的小木屋。木屋主人是個手拿竹刀、身穿運動服的美術老師，名叫日高健三。他嚴厲無比，每次學生們畫畫懈怠的時候，他只有一句話：“去畫吧！”