WHAT DO YOU DO IN A STRANGE HOUSE, IN A FOREIGN COUNTRY, WITHOUT EVEN A LIGHT, IN THE MIDDLE OF A THUNDERSTORM, WHEN YOUR CHILDREN GO MISSING?

Jim and Emma Freeling have been drifting apart; they need time together to repair their crumbling marriage. A peaceful holiday in an isolated cottage in the depths of rural France seems to offer the ideal opportunity, the perfect escape from the grinding pressures of their daily lives -
until their two children vanish in the middle of the night at the height of a savage thunderstorm.
Their disappearance is horrific enough, but when Jim and Emma meet with official stonewalling and local hostility in their attempts to recover their children, the mystery takes on much more sinister tones. With horror. Jim and Emma begin to suspect that behind the bizarre conspiracy of silence lie deadly secrets shrouded in the terrors and hatreds of the past...