When the wayward son of an old-money family is forced to complete a college degree to save face, he moves into an ancestral residence near his university. At first the house is idyllic, containing all the comforts he could ask for. But as the days wear on, his mind begins to unravel. He is losing weeks worth of memories and forgetting the names of everyone in his life. There is a presence that is chiseling away at the walls of his reality. Something vast is growing beneath the skin of his new house like a tumor, and it will not let him go.