Dan Howell isn't your everyday teenager. He's quirky, smart and afraid. He loves making new friends and he has always had a large group around him, but when his auntie can't look after him anymore he is forced to go to boarding school. At first, he's frightened of the change but when he meets a young boy called Phil, he begins to calm down and let down his guard. But all that changes when he realises the horrors of the house he now lives in.