With dreams of a better life, the young doctor, Louis Creed, and his family–his wife, Rachel, their daughter, Ellie, and their three-year-old toddler, Gage move to their new home in the small rural town of Ludlow, Maine, alarmingly close to a busy highway. However, when Rachel’s cherished tomcat is inadvertently killed in an awful accident, a desperate Louis will reluctantly take his friendly neighbour’s advice to bury it in an ancient Micmac graveyard–a mystical burial ground imbued with reanimating powers. Despite the terrible results and the insistent warnings from a recently deceased, tragedy-stricken Louis is forced to go back to the Indian cemetery, hoping that, this time, things will be different. But, can the dead return from the grave?