A federal special unit is deployed to investigate a silent, isolated town in Colorado, where the residents hide behind curtains and refuse to speak. As the team searches deeper, they uncover signs of something buried beneath the town-something that hums just beneath the skull, erodes identity, and listens. Told through the field logs of Private Maria Velez, The Quiet Ones is a slow-burn psychological horror story about silence, memory, and the fear of losing yourself before anyone ever finds you