Ten-year-old Miles witnesses the murder of his own mother - a man in a chicken mask cuts her throat right on the lawn near the house. The evidence points to Miles' father, but he denies guilt and, once in the cell, commits suicide. Miles is given to relatives to raise. All that remains for him from his previous life is his father’s farewell letter, which mentions a cache with drawings of the famous scientist Thomas Edison. The father swears that using the diagrams it is possible to create a device for communicating with the dead. Years have passed, but neither Miles nor his family have forgotten this terrible story...