Anna spent her entire childhood in a single room under the care of a mysterious man she only knows as "Daddy.". He makes her fear the outside by telling her of the Wildling." At age 16, Anna is freed by small-town sheriff Ellen Cooper with whom she finds a temporary home. For the first time in her life, Anna experiences the Outside, soon learning there's no such thing as the Wildling. But as she begins to flourish as a young woman, a series of unsettling events unfolds...