SYNOPSIS:

In the heart of rural Texas, the quiet town of Cold Mountain is shaken when the mutilated body of a young child is discovered in a field—his pockets filled with caramel candy and his eyes gouged out. To most, it’s a horrifying crime. To veteran sheriff Hank Bart, it’s a nightmare he’s seen before. Decades earlier, Hank’s grandfather investigated a string of similar murders connected to a woman known only as Clara Crane, the fabled “Candy Lady,” accused of poisoning children with sweets and vanishing without a trace. Each generation of Bart men—grandfather, father, and now Hank—has been haunted by the same case, each driven to obsession and madness trying to stop the killings. When rookie detective Jack Mason joins the force from out of state, he’s pulled into a world of superstition, secrets, and family curses. Together, Hank and Jack uncover chilling evidence linking the recent murders to the unsolved crimes of the past. Every clue brings them closer to the horrifying possibility that the Candy Lady was never just a myth—and that something dark and ancient has been feeding on the town for generations. As the investigation unravels, Hank’s family begins to fall apart, the townspeople turn on each other, and Jack struggles to separate truth from madness. Old wounds reopen, long-buried sins come to light, and the lines between legend and legacy blur beyond recognition. In the end, both men must face the same question: Is the Candy Lady real… or is evil something that’s passed down through blood?