In the small harbor town of Crescent City, California, a young boy lies a wake. Ignoring all the warnings his parents had ever given him, he ventures into the backyard after dark and comes face to face with an evil incarnate. What starts out as a mother's worst nightmare throws the small town into chaos. Peter Swann, a detective specialized in missing children, and his partner Clark Williams, are called in to investigate. With the aid of a local Police Officer, a teenage girl, and a tribal medicine woman, they learn a terrible truth. They learn what it is that makes people afraid of the dark. They learn that we are not alone. Evil walks among us in human form. Sometimes, there is something in the dark that isn't there in the light. In a showdown between Good and Evil, Peter races against time to find a weakness in this new nemesis. Would there be any hope, for mankind? Will he be successful? At what cost? Who will be left standing when man comes up against an evil so abominable as to defy description? Who will survive the Curfew?