In the town of Potters Bluff, all is not as it seems.

First of all its a photographer on a lonely beach whos seized by an angry mob and burned alive.

A drunken old fisherman is the next victim - gruesomely tortured as his throat is slit.

Sheriff Dan Gillis is a man whos determined to find out what sinister secrets lie beneath these acts of terrible violence.

His search leads him to the towns undertaker, and into an even more chilling direction he never suspected.

The truth which floods Dans mind is a picture of horror which shatters his life forever.