Under anden verdenskrig muntrede 'Kirurgen fra Birkenau' sig med at vansire tusinder af uskyldige i sadistiske eksperimenter. I 1965 får den kun 25-årige Mossad-agent Rachel lokket dr. Vogel i nettet, men han bliver dræbt i Østberlins gader, før han når at komme for en krigsret. 30 år senere får Rachel og hendes kolleger fra dengang et tip om, at Vogel er i live ...
Bestselling novelist Mike Noonan, unable to cope after his wife's sudden death, returns to the couple's lakeside retreat in Maine, where he becomes involved in a custody battle between a young widow and her child's enormously wealthy grandfather. Mike inexplicably receives mysterious ghostly visitations, escalating nightmares and the realization that his late wife still has something to tell him.
