A father and husband murders his wife and takes away his two little daughters, Victoria and Lilly. In a very brilliant state of mind, he drives his Mercedes as fast as there's no tomorrow on a road full of snow along a cliff.
Naturally he walks out of the overturned car with a few bruises, as the accident is just an early directional trick to trigger suspense and drama. Deep in the woods the loving father finds shelter in an abandoned house, with ghostly feng-shui. Something spooky there and apparently more caring for the kids decides to get rid of the Boogey-Daddy before he gets rid of his daughters.
Five years later Victoria and Lilly are found exactly where they were left, how convenient!, by their uncle. Lukas is to take custody of the girls, along with his girlfriend Annabel. Notably, Annabel is a rock fan, has a tattoo, probably worships Mick Jagger and close people call her "dude".
Both girls seem to go mental as they live with Lukas and Annabel (who wouldn't?!), acting like stars in a documentary on lion breeding. They walk at four, rarely speak, like to have dilated pupils and are manipulated by a black shadow they call "Mama", who feeds them big juicy blackish moths.
 
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Lukas, being an original dumb ruffie, didn't get a wind of any part of this creepy show. And pays the price by finding himself laying on a bed in the hospital. Annabel however grasps the idea and is left alone to deal with madness. Mama lives in the walls, is extremely jealous of Annabel ( women...) and feels herself at home, entering any time she likes.
The psychologist watching Victoria eventually realizes the voices she hears might not be the product of her imagination. So he begins an investigation that reveals all the airs and graces of this decrepit and vengeful spirit, which was once a sinful but insane mother.
As another Helmut Newton, the psychologist wants to take live photos of Mama, having no hint at all that she is not Marylin and might not "cooperate" in posing for his ambitious pic picking. Like all "giant" scientists, he finds it very clever to go search for the hundreds year old spirit all alone...
The film ends with a teaching on compromise, rather unorthodox though, in which the man (Lukas) is a walk-on and a rock girl (Annabel) who never thought of being a mother, argues with the spirit of a crazy woman over mothering two troubled kids. All this mess, and we never got hold of how exactly the damn ghost thinks. No parenting pattern, no good rock music, no sex. Just Jaimie Lannister in another stupid fling.
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