A modern-day fantasy/horror adaptation of The Secret Garden set in the dark, magical bayous of Louisiana. Following the tragic death of her parents, a bi-racial teenager is sent down to Louisiana to live with her reclusive uncle in an old mansion. Convinced that she is alone in the world, she finds her late aunt's secret garden in the magical swamps and decides to rebuild it. As she befriends the will-o-the-wisps, strange magical creatures that inhabit the swamps, her family's dark past soon places her at the center of a dangerous feud that will alter her life forever.