It has been over a quarter-century since the Puryear sisters came home from school to discover the tragedy that would leave its fingerprints on everything they did for the rest of their lives. The two girls, as well as their older brother, would go on to develop into vastly different people over the following decades as they came to terms with their childhood. The relative peace is shattered when Matthew Puryear, the children's father, is released from prison with a weakening grasp of reality, after years of making veiled threats against his children. Although Matthew will be spending the beginning of his freedom in a halfway house in another part of the state, there is nothing to keep him from eventually returning home, if he so desires. Within a week of his release, Matthew has vanished without a trace. More disappearances soon follow, and the police find themselves searching for missing people on multiple fronts. Are all of the disappearances related? Are the sisters in danger? Nobody knows for sure, but to be safe, the police move the Puryear sisters into a safe house while they try to account for all of the missing people. They will not be there long before the situation comes to a head.