A young Montana farmer and a local veterinarian grow close as their valley is shaken by increasingly strange nighttime raids—freezers pried open, pet food stolen, and claw-marked doors that don’t match any known predator. As sightings of a gaunt, man-sized creature spread through the community, the two find themselves drawn into a chilling encounter on the farmer’s porch. What begins as an ordinary dinner quickly turns into a night that neither of them will ever forget.