19 year-old journalism student Quinn Goddard is bent on investigating Rhode Island's former Ladd School for the Feeble-Minded, a eugenicist-founded state institution infamous for abuse.
Quinn's investigation yields a curious series of details connected to the Ladd School: an abandoned bunker-- an old key-- a haunting photo-- and a reference to a name that has no public record of ever existing: WATERWICK. As Quinn's investigation deepens, he's haunted by disturbing nightmares that suggest a traumatic past.
His discovery of a mysterious set of coordinates leads him down a path of no return, revealing deep, dark secrets-- about Waterwick, the Ladd School, and Quinn himself.