On the night before her 18th birthday, Lana Rivers, a teenage girl living in Crackenback, finds a mysterious boy lying dead on the shore of a lake. After she rescues this stranger and brings him back to life, he flees and avoids her at all costs in high school.The arrival of this being in town will then trigger a series of strange events and ignites in Lana an insatiable curiosity that inevitably will lead her to try to uncover all the secrets he hides. This inquisition will literally turn her life into folklore.