Whilst in the alcohol-soaked throes of a bitter divorce Jacob receives an unexpected call from his great-uncle Anton, who still lives on their rural family farm - a place Jacob hasn''t visited since the summer of 1978. Anton asks Jacob to answer the question that has haunted them both for decades: What happened to Ellen? Jacob must revisit the farm and confront what took place that summer - one defined by his teenage obsession with a beautiful woman named Ellen and the unsolved disappearance of Jacob''s classmate''s sister.