Years of carefree backyard campouts come to a sudden halt when a terrifying creature confirms Dinby's childhood suspicion that monsters really do exist. No one believes that she and her best friend Anna are in grave danger. The strange thing appears out of thin air and relentlessly follows the fourteen year olds. They have no choice but to find out what it is up to. Backwoods locals, who do not fit well into society, secretly track them and cause great trouble. Dinby and Kyle, the new boy from school, are thrown into an odd world without a clue how to get back home.