When her infant daughter Sarah unexpectedly dies, Claire moves to Los Angeles and reinvents herself as a landscape gardener. Meanwhile, Claire imagines Sarah alive, marking the child's birthdays, Christmas, first day of school-almost as if Sarah never died. Remarrying, Claire acquires a step-daughter about the same age Sarah would have been. But eight-year-old Mandy - part vamp, part jealous and troubled child - is nothing like Sarah, who still lives on in Claire's imagination. As Claire lives two lives-one real, one imagined-the clash between the two daughters threatens to destroy her, releasing her demons and forcing her to choose between a new life and a haunted past.
