Shortly after midnight in late October 1980, nine Old Order Amish families in rural Cashton, Wisconsin were brutally firebombed, obliterating an entire innocent community, and revealing a sinister global coverup that had originated almost a half century beforehand. A nine-year-old Amish boy, Samuel Beiler, who had miraculously escaped the inferno, mysteriously appears a few days later on the doorstep of investigative journalist Denise Prescott -- located hundreds of miles from the original incident -- ultimately plunging Prescott and her news team into a diabolical nightmare.