Ever since he saw a frightening vision in the forest when his father took him hunting as a boy, Fran Rivera has felt uneasy around the forest on the edge of Hopeville, Massachusetts. He only returned to it after taking a job at his childhood friend's construction company. Fran and the others, including Brad and PJ quickly found out that Fran had every reason to be afraid of what he'd seen in the forest. After barely surviving the night confronting the ancient evil in the forest, PJ, Fran, and the other survivors try to come to grips with what happened to them while at the same time trying to find a way to avenge the friends they lost that night. Meanwhile, a man who is eerily familiar with the creature in the forest hovers in the orbit of their investigation, a man who can shed light on the ancient evil they barely survived a glimpse of or who can plunge them deeper into the abyss. PJ, Fran, and Brad will have to reconcile with one another and risk everything in order to face the darkness that they could barely escape before.