Young lovers Lyle and Sunie are hiking up Mount Penobscot when, without warning, an accident occurs. Sunnie is killed but her body is never recovered. One year later, Lyle receives a strange call from someone claiming to be Sunnie. She beckons him to return to Mount Penobscot and meet her at an old depleted lodge. Reaching the secluded structed, Lyle discovers two inhabits: Sunnie, whose apparition seems quite real, and flesh and blood Ned, a 90-year-old hermit, whose past life parallels his own.