A crime scene investigator visits a large house where several deaths took place. The house was “built on old soil” and feels familiar to him. His coworker Lynn is sitting on the front porch steps when he arrives, looking unsettled. He walks inside and sees that the lights are all on and the walls are decayed. The kitchen cabinets, cupboards, and drawers are smashed and jagged. Even the refrigerator is destroyed inwards, along with the rest of the room’s contents. The investigator struggles to understand how the house got so destroyed from the inside. After sticking his hand in the walls' crevices and finding tin cans inside, he realizes that the walls themselves took in the room.   The investigator wants to protect the house and feels welcomed by it. The house is visually deceiving, with dreamlike stairs, objects, and toys that confuse the investigator. In one moment, he grabs a teddy bear from the wall. In another, a pile of bloody hair from behind a picture frame. He goes upstairs and enters the bedroom, seeing a woman's corpse driven into the wall. The investigator also sees a man's corpse within the wall's plaster for a moment until the cement closes over it. When Lynn radios the investigator to get out of the house fast, the walls press down on him.   The investigator is released several weeks later from the hospital. He returns to the house, as he was “summoned once, now summoned again.” When he arrives at the house, now an empty space, the investigator's entire body becomes fatally contorted, and he folds into himself. The neighbors find him sometime later, as a mass of twisted limbs.