While vacationing at a remote cabin, a young girl and her two fathers are taken hostage by four armed strangers who demand that the family make an unthinkable choice to avert the apocalypse. With limited access to the outside world, the family must decide what they believe before all is lost.

《暗黑》讲述了一个超自然力量的家庭传奇故事。故事设置在今天的一个德国小镇，两个孩子的消失揭开了四个家庭的双重生活和破碎的关系。该剧集共十集，每集 1 小时，讲述了将小镇与 1986 年的过去联系起来的超自然力量。