In a bleak future where only those with wealth can afford to live in a clean environment, an exclusive complex is built on the foundations of an old mental asylum. But the new residents find themselves suffering from the same mental maladies that once plagued the former occupants, as the kindly old caretaker becomes the sadistic doctor that once tortured them all. Walt, a state indentured manual labourer, takes on the cushy job of caretaker for a new residential complex built on the foundations of the asylum he grew up next to.
With only a few people moving into the exclusive new Sanctum, and most of its systems automated, its appears as if Walt will walk his way to an easy retirement. That is - as long as he can keep the truth about Santum’’s past from surfacing. Despite a few bumps in the night, Walt assurese the residence of the luxury and security of the newly rebuilt Santum.
But as each resident becomes haunted by inexplicable nightmares, compelled into harmful actions, or suffers from the side effects of archaic methods of "treatment", the power of Sanctum's past becomes harder for him to deny. Harder still, when he sees the face of Sanctum's former head Doctor, looking back at him through the mirror. Will the new residents remain strong enough to overpower the ghosts of the old, or are the original residents of Sanctum destined to live there forever.
Written by multiple award winning writer, Margret M MacDonald