A gift of music transports people back to another time and place where they find their truest feelings.

A struggling novelist moves his wife and young son to an old country home, but when a presence begins to communicate with his son, the family must escape an evil that threatens to doom them to the house for eternity.

A car crash victim, humiliated housewife and two repressed teens are connected by their relationships with hard-working therapist Viola, who helps them battle their addictions while two disillusioned detectives struggle with the mounting war against heroin distribution in the Cincinnati area.

An aging man lies bleeding to death in an alley. As onlookers start to gather around, he reflects on the life that he has lived.