A string of strange tragedies and murders bedevils the picturesque town of Dryden, N.Y., for 10 years, beginning with the cold-blooded execution of an entire family at Christmastime.
After toddler Aliza May Bush vanishes, her mother receives a pink mitten in the mail, making police realize they're dealing with a kidnapping; the curse returns as Kirsten Clark awakes to witness the murder of her friend Scott Hume.
In 1993, Kirsten Clark reels from the horror of witnessing her friend's murder at the hands of another friend; a year later, football coach Stephen Starr crosses path with his daughter's deranged ex-boyfriend, who stalks the Starr family for months.
In September 1996, the so-called curse reaches a nightmarish crescendo when football player Scott Pace dies in a car accident, Ed Bailey commits a stunning act of violence, and high school cheerleaders Sarah Hajney and Jennifer Bolduc vanish.
Police find evidence that missing cheerleaders Sarah Hajney and Jennifer Bolduc met with foul play; while townspeople pray for the teenagers' safe return, police track a sociopath who lived in their midst for years.