Every small town has its skeletons. The governor who skims off the top; the school teacher having an affair with the pastor. Wellspring, Alberta is not immune to such rumors, nor is it a stranger to stirrings darker and more ominous. People will scoff, they'll avert their gaze when asked, but public record shows the occurrence of something mysterious every twenty-odd years.
It begins with a culling of the local deer population. Cases that can't be written off as vehicular accidents are deemed 'maulings' in the local paper. Some folks have the gall to see the whole ordeal as a positive thing. What the papers don't tell you is how the deer are found strung up in trees like macabre Christmas decorations. Animal deaths escalate until, at last, human disappearances add to the strange mix.
Within a few months, things have calmed and people are prone to forgetting. Moving on. But for those whose lives are irrevocably touched by the terror that arises every twenty years, it becomes harder and harder not to stare into the darkness in search of answers.