After her mother's startling death bed confession, San Francisco bohemian Katie Jacobs dashes off to find her long lost brother, Vincent. Katie's search takes her to Bodega Bay, the eerie California coastal town where Alfred Hitchcock filmed "The Birds." There she finds Vincent, a simpleton under the spartan care of Madame Charay, an eccentric millionaire obsessed with Hitchcock and the six weeks he spent in town shooting his iconic masterpiece. With the help of a handsome psychotherapist running from his own forbidden history, Katie unravels the shocking truth about her brother, about Madame Charay and what really happened during that fatal spell when "Hitch" came to town.