Denny Skylar appears to be a regular guy about to enter his teenage years. He is keen about sports and has set up his own personal laboratory where he collects various specimens, analyzes artifacts, and conducts ground-breaking experiments. However, Denny cannot tolerate sound. Any noise above a whisper is painful and torturous. His parents have protected him from the outside world by moving to a quiet, isolated home in the country on the edge of Digger Hills. He is home-schooled and has never set foot in a classroom. Cracks begin to form in this idyllic world when Denny Skylar hears a mysterious, distant cry for help.