Twenty-year-old Carly's decision to leave college, move to the provincial town of Fell in upstate New York and take a job as a night manager at an old motel surprises all her friends and relatives. Only Carly knows his true reason - she must unravel the mystery of the mysterious disappearance in this motel thirty-five years ago of twenty-year-old Vivian, the sister of Carly's mother. And now something is wrong in the motel...