When a six lane highway is built to carry the traffic to and from Cape Cod, it slices through a farm and leaves the old wooden yellow farmhouse on one side and the barn on the other, with only a tunnel just wide enough for a cow to pass through. In the house lives an eighty year old widow, Sylvia, who did everything she could to hinder the building of the road - but the road won. When Jess moves to America to marry Laurie in a whirlwind romance, she soon learns that his Grandmother Sylvia and her creaky old house come with him. Stubborn, ailing and no longer able to look after herself, Sybil must rely on this British girl who has come to steal her beloved grandson from her. The echoing spectres of dead loved ones follow Sybil as she travels farther along the road to senility, but will those same echoes drive Jess towards madness?