"Candlewood" follows a family that moves from New York City to a small, isolated town in Connecticut. Once there, their new neighbors and a local urban legend wreak havoc on the family, fracturing their once loving dynamic and causing them to turn on one another.
College grad Ned Stern is awaiting his draft into the Vietnam War. Ned spends his last summer of freedom caring for a belligerent wealthy alcoholic man at his lakeside mansion, only to find himself falling in love with a free-spirited and wild girl while questioning his commitment to his country.
