The film is about the residents of Arcadia, Missouri after their ralatives return from the dead. One of them is Jacob Langston, an eight-year-old boy drowned 32 years earlier. Jacob was found alive in China, Jacob is brought back to the US by an immigrant named J. Martin “Marty” Bellamy, who had defied and returns Jacob to his parents, Henry and Lucille. The unexpected return of Jacob inspires Arcadia Sheriff Fred Langston and his daughter Dr. Maggie Langston to find his wife who drowned while trying to rescue the boy.