Ward Hopkins, a former CIA agent, is shocked by terrible news: his mother and father die in a car accident. He has almost come to terms with the blow of fate when he suddenly discovers a cache in his father’s chair with a note: “We are not dead.” Then a mysterious video recording falls into his hands. It was then that he first heard the phrase about “straw people.” Meanwhile, fourteen-year-old girls are disappearing in different places across the country. The kidnappings have one thing in common: each time the kidnapper throws the missing daughter's sweater to the parents, with her name embroidered on it. And instead of threads, the victim's hair is used. And again, in connection with each of the crimes, this strange expression comes up: “straw people.”