Christmas is approaching and for 14 year old Sam Johnson it promises to be the best ever. The prettiest girl in school agrees to go to the Christmas Ball with him and his father is coming home from South Africa. But it all goes awry when Fate steps in and turns his world upside down. Spending Christmas with little known relatives int he heart of Somerset is not exactly his ideas of a good time. But phantom lights in the nearby forest and his new uncle's secretive moonlit walks are mysterious enough but, when he hears what sounds like wolf howling in the night...