When fourteen-year-old Brad Wilson's little sister, Becky, is abducted by a strange, white, ape-like creature, he's afraid to chase it into the darkness, even though he has a gun. She's never seen again and he must live with not only his guilt, but t the cops think he did something to Becky and then covered it up with an obviously bogus story. Twenty-odd years later, he returns to his hometown for the funeral of his parents and another young girl goes missing. Brad's again becomes a suspect, this time for a series of disappearances. Not to worry, he'll just prove his alibis and he'll be clear, right? Wrong. His new ladyfriend and her eleven-year-old daughter are taken by a group of those same, strange beings. To save them, he'll have to go into the deepest darkness of all. Oh, and whatever happened to little Becky?