The Quendel are a good-natured folk who gather by the fireplace in the evenings to tell chilling stories and usually never do anything unplanned. However, when the self-proclaimed cartographer Bullrich Schattenbart does not come home one night, his worried neighbors set out to find him—driven by a terrible suspicion: Could it be that the reckless loner has ventured near the Finster forest? No one yet suspects what makes this night so different from all the others. A strangely glowing fog opens the borders to a foreign, threatening world. Those who can read the signs know that long-forgotten, ancient, and cruel forces are awakening to new life...