Ong's Acre is a small, suburban town just outside the New Jersey, Pine Barrens that is drenched in supernatural folklore and turn of the century legends. Emma Hart, a young mom receives a computer announced message from the local elementary school that both her children were marked absent from school this morning. Emma calls the school, but gets no human answers, only voicemail. Emma takes matters into her own hands, drives to the school and finds all doors locked and all the classroom empty. Emma along with another mom who received the same phone call about her son, break into the Boiler Room of the school to find an old janitor, tied to a chair, in a daze, hardly talking, singing a haunting children's song with a cryptic message. Together, the women call the police. The authorities take over the school , but any parents that arrive looking for their children are herded into a classroom and told nothing. Emma and two other parents realize that the local police, FBI and other Men in Black like agents are hiding the event from the Ong's Acre community. Emma and the other two decide to break out and venture into the depths of Pine Barrens to find an abandoned Nuclear Missile Launch Site where legend has it, a deranged Professor from Princeton once used the site for strange radioactive experiments with a group of followers that became a Doomsday cult of radio active geniuses, but will they save their children?