Fleeing an unhappy home life, Kevin Foster is excited about moving in with his college lover, Toby, at a beachside apartment complex, the Hotel Dante. However, the young tenants of the old converted hotel soon suspect that the hotel's supernatural and sinister past may be alive and well in the person of the mysterious and evil Ambrosius, whom Kevin inadvertently releases from a long bondage. Lesbian goth Van, bisexual party girl Amber, and slacker Cory are among those who attempt to solve the mystery as the door has now been opened to a malevolent world of evil forces that wreak havoc in the hip beach town. Enter Grace, a woman scorned, who continues an age-old feud with Ambrosius and soon the past and present collide, and life at the Hotel Dante will never be the same.