When Asa's husband is offered a new job away from the city the couple end up relocating. And
since his new office is very close to his family's home it makes sense to move in next door to
his parents. Through the long hot summer Asa does her best to adjust to their new rural
lives to the constant presence of her in-laws to the emptiness of her existence and the
incessant buzz of cicadas. And then one day while running an errand for her mother-in-law she
comes across a strange creature follows it to the embankment of a river and ends up falling
into a hole - a hole that seems to have been made specifically for her. Thus begins a series
of bizarre experiences that drive Asa deeper into the mysteries of this rural landscape and the
family she has married in to leading her to question her role in this world and eventually
who she even is.
