When Beth—a middle-aged, God-fearing mother married to a pastor—wakes up on Wednesday morning to find out that her son Timmy still hasn’t come home, she makes the decision to go looking for him. The catch? To find him, she must enter Timmy’s ‘webworld,’ for she strongly suspects that he has been ‘spiderwebbing.’ (Spiderwebbing is a hallucinogen, and two or more users who drop from the same web will experience a shared hallucination.) This could potentially be very dangerous—for one, she could get arrested for using an illegal drug, but more importantly, she would have to defenselessly face physical embodiments of her worst fears as well as her son’s worst fears in their shared dreamscape. She does it anyway.

Trying to pay no attention to the hallucinations as they come, Beth drives to the first place she hopes to find her son, the house of a girl she calls That Whore Susan. In their living room, Beth and Susan have a short discussion about Timmy and dreams. To her disappointment, however, Timmy is nowhere to be found and Beth steps out to meet Matt, Timmy’s imaginary friend from his childhood. In a desperate last attempt to find her son, she drives to her ex-boyfriend’s house, where Timmy is found hiding out in the basement in a cocoon with his friend.