In Grovetown, a small Maryland town, there is a series of suicides after the suicide of an outcast teenager Onigumo. These suicides seem to stem from a curse which spreads when any person, who witnesses the suicide, is possessed by an unseen evil force which leads them to commit suicide themselves. His brother Naraku waits for the return of his cousin Muso to the family house for the funeral. When Inuyasha, who is the fanatic Christian son of the reverend, beats up on Naraku, the undesirable youngster is helped by Inuyasha's girlfriend Kagome, A young teenager thinks there is a connection of the events to Naraku, that drives him home. They talk about Naraku's mother that had a Grimoire to worship her pagan gods in a creek and was blamed by the god-fearing locals of murdering a man; then she died in a suspicious fire. Kagome and Naraku befriend each other and sooner she finds that Onigumo has cursed the town with his own sacrifice unleashing an evil force that is leading the inhabitants to commit suicide. When Kagome is chased by her evil image, she must race against the clock when she witnesses her mother fall victim, and must try to find a way to stop the curse before it kills her too. Naraku decides to help her to stop the curse; but the price to be paid is high. Meanwhile the God-fearing townspeople, led by a fanatic preacher with a connection to the events also, form a vigilante group to take the law in their own hands.
