Jake Hunter has only just arrived in the Tasmanian town on Dunton. He’s sought out the remote Tasmanian town to escape unnamed troubles back in Melbourne, but is struggling to adjust, especially because no one has connected the electricity in his tiny police issue accommodation.
Early one morning Jake is called in to the search for a boy, missing from the local campgrounds. The boy is quickly found, cold and terrified in a decrepit vineyard, reporting a monster that had pursued him. When Jake investigates he discovers the body of an aged woman. She’s quickly identified as the retired headmistress of a nearby school for troubled girls. The first thing Jake notices is each of her finger nails have been removed; gruesome enough, until the postmortem reveals further horrors…
