Something is terribly wrong with five-year-old Tommy, and he isn't the only one.

They may look like children, but something else lurks under their skin. Tommy's mother, Judy, has to make a choice—find help, escape, or go insane.

Mommy, come out and watch cartoons with me

His small voice drifts from under a locked door. Judy bites her bottom lip to hold back a gasp.

Join Judy and her new friend Britney

As they try to escape a city both overrun by a race of creatures that come from a dark place they call the below, and a martial law is put in place to exterminate the phenomenon from the public eye.

Along the way

Judy and Britney find the answer to a bitter secret that could change the way humanity thinks about life, death, love, and evil—but are they too late?