Filmmaker Johnny brings his family to Mazywood, the secluded California mountain lodge left by his grandmother, the famous Black actress Mazelle Washington.
He wants a quiet retreat, yet the place holds inherited fury, buried secrets, and a terror that has shadowed the family across three generations.
Moving between the present and Hollywood’s Golden Age, he reconstructs Mazelle’s career from the 1920s to the 1940s, when she crossed paths with Lena Horne, Clark Gable, and Hattie McDaniel.
Since childhood she had guarded a secret that began when a dark wish came true and changed the rest of her life.
Fifty years after her death, Johnny reaches the truth she buried, while a monster long hidden outside Mazywood finds his family on its hunting ground.
