When forced to lodge with an ageing couple, a destitute young man strikes a friendship with the wheelchair-bound husband and his wife, but soon suspects the older man's disabilities are a result of horrific domestic abuse, and that he has been lured to the house for a very sinister purpose.

SYNOPSIS:

Dean Freeman is a young man who has spent his whole adult life avoiding the family home. But after the death of his alcoholic mother Dean returns for her funeral. His apathetic father pleads with Dean to stay but the house is still haunted by his abusive mother's memory and he leaves in the night with no destination in mind or money in his pocket.

Dean soon finds himself homeless, destitute, and desperate. One sleepless night while living on the streets, Dean is beaten by thugs. It is then that Dean responds to a personal ad in a newspaper offering room and board in exchange for "domestic chores".

Dean lodges with housewife, Lilith, an immaculate woman in her fifties, and her disabled husband, Nigel. The pair inform Dean that they recently lost their son and that Dean will be staying in the now empty room.

He is welcomed into his new home by the older couple and soon finds a surrogate mother figure in Lilith. At first, Dean doesn't think too much of the locked shed at the end of the garden, nor the loud, aggressive sounds coming from Lilith and Nigel's bedroom each night.

But it isn't long before Lilith becomes ever more controlling and her doting acts of kindness turn bizarre and increasingly seductive. And shortly after Dean begins to feel ill he finds needle marks between Nigel's toes and begins to suspect that Nigel's disabilities are a result of years of horrific domestic abuse at the hands of Lilith.

When Dean discovers that he is just the last in a long line of young male tenants to stay at the house before disappearing, and that Nigel and Lilith are in fact brother and sister, he attempts to leave...but Lilith won't let him.

Believing that he has been trapped in the house as part of some warped plan to "replace" their dead son, Dean then discovers that he's not there to fill the role of the son, but that of the husband. He is there to father Lilith's future children.