An abandoned house mysteriously appears in an isolated Nebraskan field. Two bored farm kids, a too-serious brother and his annoying little sister, discover it and enter. Inside, they find the dwelling of a family, frozen in time. The lights work, the house is clean, and the food in the kitchen dates twenty-two years back to the late nineties but there's no one in the house but them. Or so they think. Back outside, the scene has completely changed. The house has vanished again and taken them along with it, appearing in the neighborhood of Northwood, set in the long-forgotten town of Fairview. Already plagued by the damage of a brutal October snowstorm, the residents of Northwood are not only sheltering from the cold but from the strange and threatening cloaked figures patrolling the streets, as well. Some call them hoodlums. Others call them demons. Realizing that it isn't a nightmare and they've really been trapped in a never-ending cycle of an October's day, the two siblings brave the dangers outside to seek answers, to preserve their sanity, and to find a way back home.