Logline: Five cousins find out about a centuries old family ritual of sacrifice to an African spirit and must fight for their lives or take their place in a long line of offered souls.

Synopsis: Three cars drive through lightly falling snow on the way to a family reunion in rural Vermont. An invitation reads "Get B(l)ack to Your Roots" and the passengers in the different cars each take turn musing what Black people are really doing in Vermont in the first place. The five cousins, KAREN, HENRY, LILLY, TYRONE, and SIMPSON, and his two friends MARTIN and JULIE all have relatively the same intentions for this reunion, which is to ask the supposedly extremely wealthy older generation for some cash. They each have their own projects going on, from Tyrone wanting to finish his book, to Simpson trying to launch a company. They reach their destination, which is more of a mansion than a cabin as Lilly's cell phone crackles from lack of service. Her mom on the other end sounds like she is telling her not to go and to turn around but the call drops out too soon to really tell. The cabin is enormous, beautiful, and full of portraits of African-American leaders. A note from UNCLE MELVIN indicates the elders will meet them in the morning and in the meantime he left something in the kitchen. That something turns out to be a case of wine and weed sent directly from Africa. The cousins waste no time in getting drunk, stoned, and heading outside for a snowball fight. After, they all go skinny dipping in the hot tub, which to them doesn't seem weird at all. They don't even notice they are being watched by some kind of figures in the woods. Julie and Martin sneak upstairs to have sex and the rest of them dry off and start dancing to some music. The dancing is interrupted with Lilly SCREAMING and pointing at the sliding glass door to the hot tub, now dripping with a message in blood that reads, "The strength is in the flesh." While everyone is trying to calm her down and convince her it must have been some pranking kids, Martin and Julie take a break long enough for him to get her a glass of water, oblivious to the figure that has been watching them from the corner of the room. When he leaves it attacks Julie, but the others assume the screams are just them going at it. Martin steps outside for some air, drops his robe, and then disappears. Later, the group finds his robe, but no Martin. As soon as they have Lilly calmed down, another uproar slams through the group as the message on the door has been altered to now read, "He is here." The next day, the elders come. A vision of elegance and dignity, they are elaborately dressed and march through the woods beating drums. When they arrive at the cabin, the cousins are excited to see them and they have fun catching up. The elders don't seem that interested in the projects the cousins have to come to ask for money for, but they do seem eager to get everyone together at the end of the day for a story. AUNT SARA and AUNT BEE, with the help of Uncle Melvin recount the tale of Chakabazz, a mighty soldier that helped free the African slaves from their oppressors in 1800s Africa. Flashbacks of the story actaully unfolding accentuate the validity of it. In return for their freedom, he asked for a sacrifice of five younger members of the family- three soldiers, a host, and a virgin. During their reenactment of the story, the elders actually grab the five cousins and shove them to the floor. As the story goes, Chakabazz, killed them and emerged from the shed they were in as such a grotesque, bloody vision, it could only be described as The Horror. When the elders leave after the story, the cousins begin to think that something isn't sitting right. First, Uncle Melvin told them that Julie and Martin left early in the morning to meet friends nearby. But why would they leave without saying goodbye, before getting to pitch their company idea, and with only Uncle Melvin seeing them? Lilly is too freaked out and leaves in her car. Screw their money, she's out of there. Too bad for her, she predictably swerves and lands in a ditch, and is pulled from her immobile car by some unknown force and dragged through the woods. Any doubts of something weird going on are settled when FELICIA, Lilly's mom comes to warn the kids they need to go! It's a trap and they will be sacrificed, she warns! Just then, Uncle Melvin appears, discrediting her as being a crackhead. All are convinced she is right except Karen. When the power goes out momentarily and Uncle Melvin is in the basement working on the breaker, they open the front door to find Felicia's dead body hanging by a rope. They are OUT OF THERE! They make a break for the car but it doesn't start! Tyrone is attacked by some creature but barely makes it to the car. They decide, despite Simpson's chiding about what happens in movies when people split up, to split up and some will look for weapons while the others make a splint for Tyrone's crushed foot. When the attackers, whatever they are, return, the group takes to the snow mobile parked out front to evade them. Though they successfully lose them in the woods, it's clear it is only temporary. They reach a small cabin, which, unknown to them, is where the sacrifice is to take place. The cousins decide they need to send a message about what is happening to warn future generations so they race back to the main cabin to use Simpson's computer's satellite link. Along the way they lose Tyrone, but then find Lilly, wandering, having had half her blood drank already. Henry tries to save her but they are both attacked. Karen and Simpson can only watch helplessly from the cabin window. When the attackers burst through the bedroom door, they get Simpson and while Karen fights and slashes with her hatchet, the story ends in the dark, with her repeating the elders' chant: come, Chakabazz, come.