简介
费拉尔一家搬到一个安静的小镇，同时尽一切努力让自己看起来很正常。他们的儿子菲莱蒙 (Philémon) 17岁，性格温和内向，患有一种奇怪的病症，他必须不惜一切代价隐瞒这种病症。但他正在成长。他对卡米拉的渴望很快就与他迄今为止一直在控制的对鲜血的渴望融合在一起。他身上的差异变得无法隐藏……。British Army radiation drills at a remote Scottish base attract a subterranean, radioactive entity of unknown nature that vanishes, leaving two severely radiation-burned soldiers... and a "bottomless" crack in the earth. Others who meet the thing in the night suffer likewise, and with increasing severity| it seems to be able to "absorb" radiation from any source, growing bigger...。