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Once childhood best friends from the lake, now at 26, Shaun and Annie find themselves spending the summer of 2004 at neighbouring cabins. Shaun escapes his high-stress medical residency with boozy saunas and the sexiest shooter girl in town, while Annie processes the “accidental” deaths of her sister, mother, and father which happened at the lake, each six years apart on June 6.

When Shaun and Annie cross paths, their chemistry reignites until Annie reveals her theory that her family is cursed by Lempo, a demon who followed her Finnish ancestors to rural Lappe, Ontario, from Russian-occupied Finland in the early 20th century. Like a cicada, the demon surfaces from hell every sixty-six years to feed on Annie’s bloodline for six, six-year cycles; a curse that will last forevermore. That is, unless Annie can put an end to it. 

But Annie doesn’t expect to fall for Shaun. As Lempo’s resurgence nears, she must decide: Sacrifice herself to break the intergenerational curse plaguing her family or trust in love and fight back.

Set at lakeside “camps” settled by Finnish pioneers, now turned enviable cottage country, LEMPO asks: Can we ever break free from our ancestral demons?

MIDSOMMAR x FRIDAY THE 13TH