The Returned opens in a small mountain community which is rocked to its core when several local people who are presumed dead suddenly re-appear at their homes. Despite having passed away some years earlier, these ghostly characters appear in human form, they have not aged, and they are completely unaware of their own fatality. Determined to reclaim their lives and start over, they slowly come to realize that they are not the only ones to have been brought back from the dead. Their return augers torment for their community when a series of gruesome murders bear a chilling resemblance to the work of a serial killer from the past. This is a homecoming like no other.

The second season of the internationally acclaimed series "The Returned" jumps right back into the spellbinding story six months after the flooding of the valley. The population has nearly deserted the town, except for those who have stayed hoping to find their loved ones. Their lives are again thrown into turmoil by the arrival of a new wave of Returned, each carrying their own secrets that thhreaten to unravel the town's dark and mysterious history.