A man in college goes to his girlfriend’s childhood home in the middle of the forest. The house is a large and beautiful home with dark wood, stained glass windows, and a large library. The woman tells the man about the one-foot-tall people that live in the walls, but the man doesn’t believe her. That night when they go to sleep, the man hears the people in the walls all wake up and make tea, read the paper, play, and laugh. However, right before dawn they begin to sacrifice one of their own, tearing apart the little person and chanting “this is our choice.” The man is terrified and asks the woman why it had happened, but the woman acts like it is completely normal. That night he hears it again and can imagine in detail the brutal murder of the tiny people. The next day he finds the woman’s mom in the attic scooping the limbs and other body parts of the sacrificed person from a tiny door. The man is shaken and his girlfriend explains to him that when she was little, they decided to find the people in the walls, and she kidnapped one when they tore open a hole in the kitchen wall. The small person quickly died after being put in a jar and so the she got another one which eventually killed itself. The woman kept capturing them and trying to keep them as pets but they consistently killed themselves. Her mom felt bad about the dead people going to waste and so she dipped the corpses into glaze in order to let the woman keep them. They kept doing this, but the people in the walls got irritated with the girl and her mom pulling them at random and so they began to sacrifice a person each night to appease them. The man asks why they tear the sacrificial person apart and her mom says it's easier to form them into different figurines that way. The woman tells the man that he is “her choice” and the man says that it’s not the same because there aren’t giant people out there. The woman says there are. Years later, when the woman’s father dies the woman and her mom pull him apart and put his body parts in a basket while the man watches. They hoist the basket up into the mist of the forest to give to the giants and when they bring it back down there are no body parts left. The man out of fear lights the whole house on fire, killing all the little people in the walls as well as the woman’s mom, but he doesn’t tell the woman that he did it. Years later the man and woman’s daughter, Ellie, keeps getting ceramic figurines and the man doesn’t know where the woman keeps getting them from. The woman says that there are people in the walls of all houses, but they stay quiet because they are afraid. The woman teaches Ellie that what they are doing is right and that they might have to sacrifice her dad one day to the giants. The woman teaches Ellie how to use a knife in case she needs to help her mom kill her dad. The woman also tells Ellie she is excited to show her how to make the figurines.