After their daughter is brutally murdered in their home, a grieving young couple, Allena and Julie Pkye; escape the city to find solace in the mountains. Julie photographs an abandoned prison she finds in the woods. Upon developing the prints, she becomes convinced her dead daughter is contacting her through the photographs.

Today is the birthday of a very special boy, but there is no cake to be found, not even a new toy. It could be perhaps that he is a bit strange or maybe that a party could not be arranged.

One regular man named Simon is swept up by a popular movement in a dying world. When the charismatic leader of that movement is brutally executed, everyone looks to Simon to keep the movement alive.