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One of the few things on which pianist Kate Coleman (Vera Farmiga) agrees with her apathetic architect husband, John Coleman (Peter Saarsgard), is that a drastic change is needed to save their rocky marriage. With the burden of John's past infidelities, the emotional distance of their rebellious adolescent son, Daniel (Jimmy Bennett), and the helplessness of their deaf baby daughter, Max (Aryana Engineer), Kate's loss of her third baby in childbirth broke her sanity and drowned her in a sea of alcoholism. In an attempt to find an alternative outlet of love meant for their stillborn child, the Colemans took a mysterious 9-year-old Russian orphan called Esther into their family. Max, in her innocence, was estatic to finally have a big sister; Daniel was less than enthusiastic due to the bullying he receives at school due to her eccentricities. Polite and creative, Esther initially had a sensitivity and charm that began to thaw the frozen hearts of the Coleman couple... Then a snobbish bully scattered the pages of her curiously old Bible across the school grounds, and then mysteriously "slipped" off the jungle gym and broke her ankle the next day... with Esther at the same playground. And the little Russian's manners suddenly become less than charming after she catches Kate and John with their pants down in the kitchen... It is when sister Abigail from Esther's orphanage goes missing after a routine visit to check on her that Kate's fears really start to be realised: The new European addition to their wealthy but dysfunctional family is anything but as innocent as she seems... A low budget but strongly acted and directed horror hit made in 2009.