A famous 18-year-old fiddle player, Beau, is abducted from her parents' huge Sierra home at a birthday folk jam in her honor one summer in the early part of the 21st century. As a fire burns up the mountain while she is buried on the land under a pile of brush, she is found just in time. A month later, much to her horror, she is abducted again, this time from a Berkeley music jam. The culprit - a crazy but brilliant classical violinist only known for his expert folk guitar playing - hides her away in an underground room in the Sierras so he can compel her to learn classical violin. Pale, gaunt and shattered, can she escape?