10 year old Ethel Wayne has just experienced the greatest loss of her parents and has to move to the countryside to live with her aunt, starting anew, all alone. She stumbles across a dreary looking journal in the creek near the house, somehow staying intact amidst the waters. She begins to write in this journal, describing her thoughts and feelings until it begins to write back. Her conversations carry on with this unseen responder until one day a beautiful woman emerges from the journal, faint and ghostly but still there. She reveals herself to Ethel as the perfect version of herself when she grows up, and is there to guide her through it. However, her interactions become less wholesome and more manipulative. Ethel feels herself getting weaker as the years go on, performing more and more demanding and tumultuous acts for her perfect self until her life is on the line. She tosses the journal back into the creek to forget about forever. At twenty-two she returns to her aunt’s home to collect what she left behind years ago, and in the attic she finds the journal. Curiosity gets the best of her and she opens it. Suddenly, with a roaring screech and warping of the air around her, she is sucked into the book, awakening in a world that is not her own. A gigantic creature looms in the distance, declaring itself to be her perfect form, revealing its intentions to swallow her whole and in turn, feast upon the world she came from. Ethel must return back to her world and tether the beast back to its journal forever, but it could kill her.