Farming husband and wife Samuel and Judith Covey have been visited by William Bloor, a Foxfinder, who has arrived to investigate a suspected contamination. Foxfinders are trained from a young age in rooting out ‘the Beast’ that threatens man’s civilisation. In their search for this deadly enemy that unsettles the mind and kills children, we see the community descend into chaos, with betrayal, delusional and guilt at play, the course of the evening changes their lives forever.

When a mother is hit by a rare condition that sees her lift off the ground at a slow but ever increasing rate, her husband and daughter are forced to come to terms with losing her.