In 1992, a group of young Anarchists seeking to preserve the local wildlife are brutally murdered. The killer is later found collapsed by a river due to wounds he’d sustained while attempting to kill the lone surviving anarchist. The movie flashes forward 15 years as successful crime novelist Susan moves into a nearby house with her husband David, who have purchased the house in hopes of it helping her with her writing. Susan is quickly made uneasy as she witnesses the house’s gamekeeper Peck having enthusiastic sex in the woods and then later exposing himself to her.