As a child, Samantha O'Connell played in the woods and swam in the lake near her grandparents' general store and cabins in Michigan's rural northlands. For her, it is a place and time that fills her with memories of love, home and happiness. Now grown to maturity, but left feeling disillusioned and alone, Sam returns to this place to try and shape a new future from the property left to her by memories past. Unfortunately, nothing is truly what it seems...other parties have interest in the property and as Sam begins to question whether or not to sell, two very different men enter her life. One man, Frank offers her a tentative friendship and the hope for something more, while the other revels in the chaos that he has been employed to create. With her hopes for the future seemingly reduced, systematically, to flame and ash, Sam discovers that indeed everything is not what it seems and instead comes to the grim realization that in fact, everything is Jake.