It is a year since Julie and Ray killed Ben Willis on his boat, "Sweet Suzie". Julie has moved away from the nightmarish memories of Southport, and started at a college in Boston... but she's finding it hard to concentrate. She keeps having nightmares - nightmares that Ben Willis is back. Sometimes they come at night... sometimes they come during the day. Sometimes she can't even tell that they are dreams... She has tried as hard as she can to get back into a normal life, but something seems to be holding her back - and she still feels the same guilt she felt last year at the death of her two friends Barry and Helen. Then, her best friend and room-mate, Karla Wilson wins an all-expenses-paid trip to the Bahamas over the fourth of July weekend... and no one needs a vacation more than troubled Julie James. So she, her friend Will Benson, Karla and Karla's hormone-driven boyfriend Tyrell take off for Tower Bay Island for the weekend... unaware that the storm season is about the set in and there is another, unwanted, uninvited guest waiting for them to arrive on the storm-lashed island...