Anna Rydell return home to her sister (and best friend) Alex after a stint in a mental hospital, though her recovery is jeopardized thanks to her cruel stepmother, aloof father, and the presence of a ghost in their home.
After the death of her ill mother in a fire, the young teenager Anna tries to commit suicide and is sent to a mental intitution for treatment. Ten months later, Anna still cannot remember what had happened on the night her mother died. Her psychiatric Dr. Silberling, however, discharges her telling that she has resolved her issues. Her father and successful writer, Steven, brings her back home in an isolated manion nearby the coast. Anna finds that her mother's former nure, Rachel Summer, is her stepmother now. Anna meets her beloved sister, Alex, swimming in the sea. She discover that Steven has not delivered the letter and CDs that Alex had sent to her. As time moves on, Anna is haunted by ghosts and she believes that Rachel killed her mother. Alex and Anna decide to look for evidences to prove that Rachel is the murderer and Anna discover the truth about the fire in the boat house.

mother the tragic death of Anna ( Emily Browning ornaments ) through the period of this life is the most difficult time in the hospital . Home, just feel a little calm of her father ( David Strathearn ornaments ) actually ambiguous relationship between mothers former nurse Rachel ( Elizabeth Banks ornaments ) . That night , Anna 's bizarre camel and the soul of the mother's experience, and the soul of the mother warned her daughter to be careful with this woman named Rachel . So, Anna and her sister Alex ( Ariel Kai Beier ornaments ) will join forces to try to get the advice of the father believed dead mother soul , and try to make my father to re - create a happy and warm family , and to avoid the sisters and the future stepmother between a "bloody" war ...