John Stramen is a writer who struggles to come up with an idea for his next novel after his break-out hit 'Dark Strings'. He lives in a secluded mountainous village with his dog and works as a woodchopper during the day to pay the bills. He moved there after the death of his wife, hoping he would find inspiration and peace. He spends most of his nights sketching a cloaked figure he saw in his dreams, and believes to be haunted by it as he continuously sees it in the forest and around his house. All the while, he has become victim of childish pranks that seem to get more violent and extreme by the day. He begins to suspect that a secret from his past has come back to punish him and he becomes increasingly paranoid that one of the villagers is out to get him.