Paul Greer did not want to kill again. His daughter Brenda’s boyfriend, murdered secretly by Greer because he was African American, seems to be a successfully hidden part of the past. When the new white boy Brenda brings home proves satisfactory to Greer, he thinks the family’s problems are behind them. Soon, images, brought on by guilt, he thinks, change everything. The dead youth’s likeness appears to Greer and his wife in the form of people they know. The spirit of the dead, seeking vengeance, threatens to destroy everything that Greer holds dear.