Peter Hughes returns to Havenwood after being medically discharged from injuries recieved in Korea. He returns home to find that his hometown left abandoned but not abandoned like everybody fled abandoned like people vanished as they were going about their lives. After finding a mysterious amulet talking to a disturbed old man who dies in front of him and seeing a shadow leaving clues he has to figure out how to escaoe the unbearable silence and get out of Havenwood