1692年，大量的外来移民迁入，为了保护自己的精英地位，家族们达成了秘密契约。而其中一支擅自滥用力量的家族，则被永久放逐，从此杳无音讯。1665年，为了躲避英格兰的宗教迫害，五个家族融合成一体，举家迁徙。1666年，五个家族到达马赛诸塞州海湾，共建殖民地“伊普斯威奇”。2006年，曾经的殖民地早已成为了富足之地，唯一能显示旧时特权的，是一所云集富家子弟的寄宿学校--史宾塞学院。
而这一切是以新学年的开始为开始的。故事中幻想与现实交替的视觉魔力是本电影的一大看点。

In 1692, in the Ipswich Colony of Massachusetts, five families with untold power formed a covenant of silence. One family, lusting for more, was banished; its bloodline disappearing without a trace--until now. This thriller tells the story of the Sons of Ipswich, four young students at the elite Spencer Academy who are bound by their sacred ancestry.

As descendants of the original families who settled in Ipswich Colony in the 1600s, the boys have all been born with special powers. When the body of a dead student is discovered after a party, secrets begin to unravel which threaten to break the covenant of silence that has protected their families for hundreds of years.

An ancient secret threatens to unleash the powers of darkness on a group of modern prep school students when the sole survivor of a cursed bloodline returns to lay claim to the powers denied to him centuries ago in a supernatural teen thriller from director Renny Harlin and screenwriter J.S. Cardone.

Bound by their sacred ancestry and sworn to silence, these four teens share a secret so remarkable that it has served to protect their families for hundreds of years. The past has a way of coming back when you least expect it though, and when the fifth Son of Ipswich returns seeking to harness the powers denied him in the past, the battle is on to ensure the safety of The Covenant and lay the one descendent who threatens to reveal their secret to rest once and for all.

Notecovenant n. 契约，盟约     bloodline n.  血统，血族 
thriller  n.有剧情的故事或小说ancestry n.家系，血统  
settled in 定居 　 unravel v.揭示   screenwriter n.编剧