Plot.
The bestseller writer Mike Noonan is autographing his new release in a
bookstore and his beloved wife, the painter Jo Noonan, goes to a store
on the other side of the street to buy a pregnant test. When she is
crossing the street back to the bookstore, a bus run over her and she
does not survive. Mike grieves the loss of his wife and decides to go
to the house by the Dark Score Lake, in Maine, that he had inherited
from his grandfather and Jo had spent a long time repairing it. Mike
starts to drink and suspects that Jo might have betrayed him since his
sperm counting indicates that he is sterile. In the isolated house,
Mike has nightmares and believes that Jo is trying to contact him. He
also has daydreams and ghostly visions with the jazz singer Sara Tidwell
in a local fair in 1939. Mike stumbles in the town with Mattie and her
daughter Kyra Devore and he discovers that the powerful and mean Max
Devore is disputing the custody of his granddaughter Kyra with Mattie.
Further he discovers that there is a curse in Dark Score Lake due a
despicable action of Max in 1939. Mike decides to help Mattie against
Max and to investigate further the mysterious curse.