Lennon (Georgina Campbell, who has already faced many horrors in the excellent “Barbaric”) is a forest ranger assigned to the backcountry. This means that she delves into the forest of a national park and settles in a small cabin. The walls are thin enough for her flashlight to illuminate the entire building at night, like a shadow box. It’s a lonely beacon cutting through the impenetrable darkness. During the day, she walks through the forest, listening to podcasts about people who mysteriously disappear in national parks. It turns out that Lennon has a history with this – when she was a child, her sister disappeared in the same national park where she now works.
We already know that Lennon is in some kind of danger because an opening scene reveals that the forest ranger who previously inhabited her cabin disappeared, walking into the woods after leaving a threatening note about owing a body to the earth. Screenwriter and director Sutherland establishes a sense of foreboding from the start, and the scenes of dense forest bring with them a sense of threat, even in broad daylight.
After a nighttime visitor drags Lennon into the forest, she finds herself involved in a new missing person case that brings back chilling memories of her sister’s disappearance. What’s going on here? People disappear in the forest all the time for various reasons, but what if there was something supernatural behind these situations? Supernatural… or otherworldly? Things go from bad to worse quickly for Lennon, and the very nature of reality seems to change.
