An old man is possessed and tormented by an evil spirit. The ghost of a little girl returns to terrorise her isolated outback home. A house in an affluent suburb becomes a place of worship for followers of the black arts. Crew members begin to die as a cryogenics experiment on a space station goes horribly wrong. A corpse is grotesquely brought back to life in the name of science. Seemingly unconnected occurrences - yet linked by one figure : ex-priest, Matthew Kindling. Fighting for his sanity and his life, relentlessly pursued by Darkness, Kindling is inexorably propelled towards a confrontation with an evil beyond human imagining...