Author's alien encounter haunts him. As he investigates, reality blurs, testing belief in extraterrestrial phenomena and human psyche.

Whitley Strieber goes with his family and some friends to his holiday home in the forest. They experience some weird occurances, are they UFO activity?

Whitley is abducted and then faces a horrible dilema; was I abducted or am I going mad? He sees a psychiatrist who tries to use hypnotic regression to discover the truth.