In the small, isolated town of Stillwater, silence isn’t peaceful—it’s deadly. The town is nestled in a valley where sound travels strangely, muffled and warped, but the locals have grown used to it. That is, until the silence begins devouring more than just noise.

It starts subtly: whispers disappearing mid-sentence, a child’s laughter vanishing into thin air. Then come the accidents—workers on the factory floor crushed because they couldn’t hear machinery coming, people walking into danger because they couldn’t hear warnings. Soon, even screams are swallowed by an oppressive, unnatural quiet.

Enter Clara Kane, a sound engineer from the city who comes to investigate the strange acoustics of Stillwater at the behest of an old professor who vanished while studying the town. As Clara digs deeper, she uncovers the legend of an ancient being said to dwell beneath the valley, one that feeds on sound itself—and grows stronger with each stolen voice.

When the being begins targeting Clara and those close to her, she must unravel the mystery of its origins. Her only clues are cryptic journal entries left behind by the professor and a decades-old recording of an unspeakable horror. To stop it, Clara must confront her own deepest fears and use her expertise to battle a creature that thrives in silence—a silence that spreads, consuming everything in its path.

In the rural town of Hollow End, the woods have always been off-limits. Local legends tell of a sinister creature that walks among the trees, wearing the skins of those who stray too far. The stories were dismissed as folklore—until the night of the Hollow Feast, an ancient harvest festival, when a local teenager is found skinned alive at the edge of the forest.

Desperate for answers, Ellie Ward, a struggling journalist returning home after a failed career in the city, starts digging into the town’s history. What she uncovers is chilling: centuries ago, the townsfolk made a pact with an ancient entity that lives beneath the forest. In exchange for bountiful harvests and prosperity, the town agreed to sacrifice a few lives each generation. The victims are marked not by chance, but by an inherited curse tied to their families—a curse Ellie realizes she might be next in line to bear.

As the town’s past begins to unravel, Ellie must choose between breaking the cycle of horror and saving herself. But the creature isn’t merely hunting her; it’s whispering to her, offering her a dark bargain of her own. With time running out, Ellie must decide whether to face the monster or become a part of it, sealing her fate—and the town’s—with her choice.