When a nightmarish blizzard forces a group of strangers to take refuge in a small-town church, the involuntary companions must confront not only the tensions between them, but the dark appetites within them. The college friends with their tangled past, the teenage wiccan, the idyllic family, the soft-spoken old man, the soldier boy and his brash girlfriend -- all will be tested to the limits of their will to survive. For the storm raging over Spirit Lake, Minnesota, brings with it more than just wind and snow. The pent-up hungers of the blizzard's refugees have stirred something else to motion -- brutal and terrifying creatures of legend whose very presence can drive even the most innocent souls to acts of unthinkable savagery. . .