In a small town in present-day America where an ominous legend and a recent string of male disappearances have unnerved the public imagination, a hitchhiker and a barefoot traveler tread in the dark woods.

After one of her students is abducted, a high school teacher reconciles with the horrible knowledge that she possibly witnessed the girl's abduction and chose not to report it.

A serial killer that smells people’s words gets more than he bargained for with his latest target.