Billy Jackson has spent his life running from a past so horrible that he has spent the last twenty years in therapy. Against the advice of his doctor, he returns to his hometown for the first time since entering foster care. But the sins of his father, the notorious seriel killer "The Peppermint Man", don't want to stay in the past. Billy's life begins to unravel when the murders begin again, and he finds himself right at the center of the attention...