Doctor Lucien Blake returns from a trip to Chine seeking news of his daughter but he arrives back in Ballarat to find himself once again deep in a murder mystery involving the local Town Council.
A demonic creature not of this world impregnates a woman. 160 years later a team of ghost hunters must set aside their quick buck party mentality when they discover one of their team is the offspring of the entity haunting the place - and its true target. The offspring and her friends bee uneasy allies with the ghost of the mother to destroy the demon and restore harmony.
1965年，在一个叫新彭赞斯的小岛上，有一队童子军驻扎在艾凡赫营地里。童子军教官华德（爱德华·诺顿 Edward Norton 饰）在一个早上发现学童山姆（杰瑞德·吉尔曼 Jared Gilman 饰）留信出走，于是华德和一众童子军开始寻找山姆，小岛警察夏普布鲁斯·威利斯 Bruce Willis 饰）也展开了环岛搜寻。原来山姆的出逃是计划已久的，他和“问题”女孩苏西（卡拉·海沃德 Kara Hayward 饰）一起出走，而苏西是岛上一对律师夫妻的女儿，父母视苏西为问题儿童。搜寻过程中，苏西的父亲（比尔·默瑞 Bill Murray 饰）似乎察觉到自己的妻子和警察有染。这支由一队童子军、童子军教官、警察、律师父母组成的搜查小队，终于找到了出逃的二人。由于山姆是孤儿，这次事件之后他必须被送去未成年人收容所。当晚，童子军队伍决定帮山姆和苏西二人再次出逃。一场大风暴将要从东部向小岛袭来，一行人将会遇到什么