Synopsis

An urgent message from his brother Peter prompts Scott Bowman to drive back to Halford, Washington, their shared hometown, to discover the cause of the distress. He arrives to find Peter dead and his wife, Eilleen, accused of his murder. Yet, the tragedy is not the only shock that awaits him. The town he remembers has undergone a startling transformation; antenna towers now punctuate the landscape, and the inhabitants behave with an unsettling uniformity, as if caught in the grip of intermittent