Mason investigates the suspicious death of an esteemed astronomer. Before his untimely-and decidedly grisly-demise, the scientist had made unsettling connections between the recent discovery of an unusual cluster of pods in a nearby marsh and a meteor shower passing close to the earth.

Hired to locate a missing girl, Detective Max "Mutt" Mason discovers deeper malignant forces at work. Femme fatales soon give way to strange creatures older than humanity, all bent on remaking our world as their own. Mason wants answers, but the solution to this mystery may lie within hidden realms where no man was meant to behold...