Journalist Jack McMorrow travels to the sleepy town of Scanesett, Maine. When a man known as P. Ray Mantis disappears from a tour bus, no one seems to care. Except Jack McMorrow, who knows there's a story too good to pass up. Nearly everyone, including the town sheriff, says there isn't a case. But that just piques Jack's interest even more. And he can't seem to get his mind off one certain detail: Robie, a young man with the mind and wide-eyed curiosity of a child, and a relentless interest in the case. Always in the background, teetering between asking questions and remaining an anonymous onlooker, Robie clearly knows something. But the boy is scared - and he isn't about to tell a thing.