While hiking down a rocky trail with his young children, Carol and Mike, a man named David suggests they take a quick break. He wishes he had brought his flask of alcohol, and Carol, who is eight years old, explains how she wishes she had a pet horse. They sit in silence for a while before starting down the trail again, on their way to see what David calls a “hole in the ground,” or the Bottomless Well. As they walk, he thinks of things he should be doing, such as installing kitchen cabinet doors.  The family soon arrives at the opening of the wall, which appears to be like a cave that runs vertically, with stone ledges that they can climb onto. Mike exclaims that the hole must be a thousand feet deep, and David says he will take them down into the cave one by one, starting with Carol. As David helps Carol climb into the Bottomless Well, they hear Mike cry out and see that the fence post he was leaning on has snapped, causing him to plunge into the well. David catches his son as he falls, but the impact pushes him toward the opening of the well. Carol scrambles out of the well and helps her brother out by giving him a root to hold onto. However, as Carol pulls her brother out of the well, David falls deeper in, unable to hold onto his ledge. He tells Mike to run home and tell his mother to call spelunkers while Carol stays with him.   In the silence, David considers his chances of survival until Carol exclaims that she has found a grape vine that she can use to pull him out. David begins to cry, saying that he would just pull her into the well with him. He then slips from his ledge again and falls deeper into the well. Carol panics, but David tells her he loves her and asks if she can say something every couple of minutes to remind him she is still there. He also tells her that it is perfectly normal for her to want a pet horse and she should tell her mother to get her one. Afterward, David’s senses black out, and he wakes to spelunkers saving him and telling him that his son Mike should be the new sprint champion.