It's 1969. Man is on the moon. America is in Vietnam. And deep in an Alabama swamp the Cryman awakens. Thirteen-year-old Aaron is the first to see it, the first to bear its wrath, and he must choose which path to take: the Thorny Path of lust and vengeance, or the Dark Path of eternal loneliness. Either way his life is forfeit, but he can still save some people: his beloved sister, who is drifting away from him...