Astrid Rodgers is a clinical psychologist with a long standing habit of hiding from her emotions in order to keep the shadows of her mind where they belong. In the dark. With an empty social life and a full and thriving counseling practice, she feels like she is doing alright. Snow Hill, Maryland is a great little town when you prefer walking on the safe side with no commitments and no close relationships. And after all, she was certainly helping others. Although not exactly happy she feels content as she maintains a safe distance from the world around her, protecting hidden wounds deep within her. Everything changes when her good-samaritan action to help a struggling patient turns into a fight for her life when he kidnaps her and drags her away into the deep woods in the dark desolation of the Pocomoke Forest. She soon realizes that her reasons for protecting herself from human contact go much deeper than just losing her parents in a fire at such a young age. Caught up in the center of an occult ceremonial rite, the hidden demons that keep her darkest memories locked in the shadows of her mind begin to emerge from within her as her chances for survival become more and more bleak.