Ancient secrets lie hidden deep within the Wollemi Forest. Strange things are happening in the abandoned places where no one goes. Lights are seen at night where no lights should be. When two little girls go missing in the forest, the powerful and the secretive Centre for Disease Control sends in Dr Kaitlin O'Neill, specialist in the hidden and occult and practicing shaman. Some long-planned game is playing out in the wilderness. Has the Dreamtime woken from its slumbers? The stage is set for imminent war between our everyday world, and the hidden world beyond the veil. When the military show up in the quiet hamlet of Wiseman's Ferry, any pretence of normalcy is ripped away...