- A warlock couple abduct a young teenage girl to sacrifice her to a mysterious and evil entity as an offering to resurrect their long-dead boy.
- Tara is a teen outcast in school and neglected by her mother at home. While riding her bike back home, she is drugged and brought to a deserted house by the pianist Anton, and his wife, Judith. They lock her in the basement where she meets their son, Johnny trying to commit suicide. Tara discovers the couple lost their son in a lake years earlier, and has made a pact with a demon to bring him back... in exchange for the sacrifice of 12 teenagers, and Tara is the last one.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Tara is a local teen who is kidnapped and locked away by a deranged couple in their basement. Slowly, Tara realizes that she is intended as part of a sacrifice to a demon in fulfillment of a pact made between the couple and a demon - in exchange for a dozen sacrificed teens, the couple's dead son will be resurrected.—Matt Patay
- Tara (Lindsay Pulsipher) is a pretty and talented teenage girl who is not liked at her high school and has no friends. Upon returning home one day on her bicycle, she is struck down by a van and promptly kidnapped. She seemingly awakens in a hospital bed with a nurse (Lori Petty) informing her that she is far from home and was found in Vermont. After some odd personal questions, Tara finds out, to her shock, that she is not, in fact, where she thinks she is, and attempts to scream for help and run, which grants her nothing. The kidnapper (William Samples) apprehends her as she tries to escape, and with the help of the "nurse", throws her into the basement.
Tara explores the basement, finding only a young boy (Jesse Hadock) hanging from a noose, close to death. She saves him, and the two begin to form a bond. The boy, named Johnny is sweet and kind but cannot talk; he has to communicate by writing in the dust. With Johnny's assistance, Tara uncovers cryptic warnings on the walls, such as "Beware the Fair-Haired Child!" and "Get out before it wakes up!" As if that wasn't enough, the two discover a room with numerous backpacks and a bathtub stained with blood, showing that they are not the first victims in this basement.
Shortly after this, Johnny begins to breathe hard as a great gust of wind shakes everything in the basement. Tara attempts to comfort him by talking to him about the picture drawn in her book: A comic she made up of a princess befriending some seemingly evil creatures who help her out, and become the greatest friends she's ever had.
Angered with the kidnapping couple, she yells at them for the mistreatment of her and Johnny. It is then we witness his transformation from a normal boy into a monstrosity (Walter Phelan). Scared out of her wits, Tara hides from the creature successfully until it reverts into the boy she befriended. It is then he reveals his shameful secret: the couple are his parents. 12 years ago, Johnny died by drowning on his 15th birthday while trying out a small rowboat that his parents had given him as a birthday present. Desperate over the loss of their son, Johnny's parent's gain hope from a ritual book they receive from an old student who seemingly practiced occultism. By performing a ritual following the book's instructions, the parents make a deal with some entity, which involves them providing a sacrifice of one child per year until the quota of twelve is reached. Tara is the last before Johnny can become human again.
Johnny begins to cry and pound the wall, writing that he does not want to hurt her, and to forgive him. She embraces him as he begins to change. In a horrifying and graphic scene, the demon re-emerges and performs his final kill by disemboweling Tara. Soon afterward, Johnny's parents descend into the basement to find Johnny crying over Tara's bloodied corpse covered with a piece of old newspaper, with the words "I forgive you, Johnny," written on it in her blood (which she apparently wrote before expiring).
After buring Tara's dead body in their garden outside, the couple then happily performs the final stage of the ritual, leading Johnny through an arch in their garden, transforming him into the beautiful, blond boy he was before his death. The next scene shows his parents calmly playing their instruments as Johnny sits quietly, looking over Tara's drawing. Upon their questioning of his silence, Johnny (speaking for the first time) responds about his jealousy of their talent and his wish for something that he himself is good at. Smiling, he informs his mother that he found it. His talent is bargaining. It is then that the lights begin to flicker and a strong wind travels through the house as his mother screams, asking Johnny what he did. He replied that it took them twelve kids to resurrect somebody. He narrowed it down to two, and they didn't have to be children. Johnny smiles sadistically as a female version of the demon bursts through the window, and gruesomely kills his parents.
Flash forward to the alive-and-well Tara waking up, curiously observing the Band-Aid on her arm (which indicates Johnny injected her with something to make her temporarily forget what had happened). She meets him in another room, and the two introduce themselves again as he takes her for a stroll to the lake. As they pass, the camera pans to the graves of Johnny's parents in the garden.
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