When go-go dancer Lucía nicks a fortune in designer drugs from her mafia employers the mobsters’ dogged pursuit forces her to seek sanctuary with her estranged sister Rocío and niece Alba in “The Venus” a decrepit apartment complex on the outskirts of Madrid. As terrible rotten no-good luck would have it Lucía soon finds herself sole guardian to little Alba after Rocío suddenly flies the concrete coop unable to handle the supernatural stress of living in a monolith that is apparently also host to a malignant evil — one that invades its tenants’ waking nightmares.