The most notorious man in Miners Point has just returned to town, and people have started dying. Others have gotten deathly ill, and no one can seem to figure out why. Jim Craig is a small-town sheriff thrust into the middle of something that falls outside the realm of protecting and serving and outside of what seems plausible. Hoping to find some answers before any more people die, Jim engages the help of Mike Flannagan from the neighboring town. What they think they have found will change everything, if only people would believe them. How is it possible that two respected men in their communities are considered crazy? Or is that insanity itself now contagious? Something is going wrong in this small town in the middle of nowhere, and it's starting to spread.