The disappearance of teenager Lisa Surette from Fishermen Island stirs the peaceful town of Olsegon.
Olsegon folks and Lisa's parents blame the mysterious man who lives on Massacre Island, near Fishermen Island. Mark Snipe, sheriff, not convinced, but pressured by townsfolks and mayor, agrees to seek out the hermit. Reported by fishermen, the mystery man disappears on sight. No one knows where he came from. As a War II German prisoner in Europe, trauma flashbacks still haunt Mark Snipe. On Massacre Island, the sheriff leads four men up a cliff, in a forest, to an embedded marsh, sea cove, into caves where the team discovers skeletons, hieroglyphics, artifacts, and how the mystery man came to be.