Based on Daphne Du Maurier's gripping occult thriller. When a little girl is accidentally drowned her parents go to Venice to try and move on. There they meet a strange clairvoyant who tells them their daughter is very much alive - and gives them ominous messages from the grave. As their whole world starts to disintegrate around them everyday objects turn into omens of doom and ordinary events become terrifying. The father (Sutherland) begins a frantic search for his daughter through the deserted canals and menacing alleys of Venice in winter into a world where nobody can be sure what is real and what is illusion until the macabre and shattering climax...