An escaped convict and an east-coast academic encounter two mysterious sisters living alone in the forest while investigating a series of unexplained deaths on the American frontier.
Shortly after the Civil War, an escaped convict leads a flighty academic and a runaway slave on a "fool's expedition" to investigate a rash of mysterious deaths on the American frontier. But when they discover two sisters fleeing a family of vampires with a sinister agenda, they must put aside their differences in order to survive.