After years overseas, a man returns to his hometown. He finds not the family he remembers, but a house where his widowed mother and sister survive by luring passing men with a deadly secret. Unrecognized by the two women, the man chooses to remain incognito, renting a room... little suspecting he's walked into a trap. At his side is his wife Maria, a helpless witness to a fate that will drag her toward madness.