Aaron Powell (Evan Ross) returns from college to stay with his grandfather Dr. Lawrence Powell (Danny Glover), who forgot to pick him up from the train station because of a case he was working with the police. Lawrence is a psychiatrist offering his analysis in the case of the recent apparent suicide of professor Stephanie Hancock (Mayko Nguyen), who taught a course on the creation and destruction of myth. Prior to her suicide, the professor had reported to Dr. Powell a series of nightmares centered on a farm on Buckout Road, the locale of  a series of local urban legends. Her nightmares focused on the legends of the Lady in White, the vengeful spirit of a woman who hanged herself after murdering her abusive husband.

The detective working the case (Henry Czerny) has a daughter, Cleo (Dominique Provost-Chalkley), who was a student of the professor, and he is worried that she is showing some of the same symptoms. She also is having nightmares and sleepwalking and finding herself along the same road. Her nightmares center on the legend of three witches burned at the stake near an old tree along Buckout Road. Detective Harris asks Dr. Powell to meet with Cleo. When she comes to meet with him, she meets his handsome grandson Aaron, and gives him her phone number.

After Dr. Powell’s funeral, Aaron surprises Cleo and the Ganzer twins breaking into his grandfather’s office to get tapes of her sessions with him. They share their story with him, and he tells them he has also been having nightmares and sleepwalking.

Buckout Road feels a lot like an episode of Supernatural, or maybe  a couple of them combined, a retelling of local mythology with modern interactions, told as a mystery. All ghosts stories are, at their heart, mysteries. What’s going on? What are the rules of the haunting, who died, how do you escape the haunting or the curse? It’s about surviving unnatural danger, but also information gathering. Aaron and Cleo (and the twins) must find the truth behind the local legends to discover what is happening to them, and try to stop it before it takes their lives.