When Bobby Garfield (David Morse–The Green Mile) returns to his hometown for the funeral of a boyhood friend, he recalls the magical summer of 1960… That summer a lodger (Academy Award winner Anthony Hopkins–Nixon, Shadowlands) moves into eleven-year-old Bobby’s house. A special bond grows between the mysterious, kindhearted lodger and the fatherless boy. But the lodger comes with haunted past … and strange powers that puzzle and alarm the impressionable boy. And in the few short weeks the lodger stays in his house, the way Bobby sees the world changes forever. Based on a story by horror writer Stephen King.