In this Southern Gothic retelling of Sheridan Le Fanu's vampire story 'Carmilla|' a young drifter (Christen Orr) arrives in a rural town seeking the whereabouts of
the mother she never knew. When she becomes sexually involved with an emotionally fragile waitress (Hannah Fierman)| she exposes the secret of her mother's
disappearance and incites the wrath of the girl's overprotective father (William Katt).