The best selling psychological horror author, Klive Edwards, has moved into the Big Apple in the hope of leaving his divorce behind him and getting through his writer's block with a change of scenery. Finally giving in to the advice of his persistent agent, he seeks help from a strange doctor in order to get his night terrors in check, but things worsen as Klive's hold on reality waivers. Are the tall shadows from his nightmares a figment of his imagination, or is there something closing in on the world around him?