Darksmouth is a small, remote town in northern New England, once famous for its waterfront, small, neat houses with gardens, quiet streets and friendly residents, as well as its fishing and whaling industries.

However, with the decline of the whale trade, the inhabitants gradually began to leave Darksmouth until only the old people and the few young people who do not have the means to to start a new life in a new, better place.

Your story starts here, in 1922 in a fading town shrouded in an atmosphere of darkness and tension. It all started with the construction of an oil rig in the sea...