Mel Waters is a grieving widow and now a single parent - struggling to cope with the loss of his beloved wife to cancer, and left with the responsibility of raising his son; Jesse, all by his own. Jesse is having a hard time having lost his Mother, and the strain shows in the Father and son relationship.

Mel hangs out with his brother Tom on a fishing trip, and it's there that Mel talks about losing his wife; he describes the night when his family saw a shooting star in the night's sky. Mel, a keen stargazer, gathered his family around his telescope to view the spectacle, and told his son to make a wish. Jesse wished that his Mom would get better. The wish never came true.

Sick with grief at home, Mel packs up and takes Jesse and their pet dog Barney all across the country to the mid west to life with his Mother in an old country house in the middle of nowhere. Not long after their arrival at the house, Jesse discovers a deep hole in a field close by to the house. The hole, ten foot in diameter, plunges into darkness.

That same night, Jesse hears strange howls coming from the field where the hole is located. He even sees a figure running across the horizon. Mel of course thinks his son is making it all up, but the next day he discovers the hole himself, when finding a local man; Frank, dumping scrap metal down the hole.

Father and son both become fascinated and obsessed with the bottomless hole - Mel tries lowering a flashlight on a fishing wire down there, while Jesse continues hearing howls at night and seeing things in the dark - a small alien like creature. When Mel accidentally runs over Barney the dog, Jesse has the idea to throw the animal down into the hole, because he believes it has magical powers.

Mel investigates further, and questions Frank about what he knows about the hole. Frank doesn't say much, but hands Mel a coin - a 1943 Roosevelt dime, which he says he found near the hole many years ago. The two men come up with the idea of lowering a bucket of ice into the hole. The result is that the ice blocks defy science - they are warm. And when they place one block of ice over a flame, the ice cube is encircled by a blue ring.

Things get stranger as that night Mel has a vision in his sleep of his dead wife coming to visit him. His dream is ended by a phone call; his brother Tom, who has some exciting news. Tom has tried to look up the hole on google Earth, only to find it's not there - which makes Tom believe the government or the military have full knowledge of the hole's existence.

The phone conversation is cut short when Mel sees Jesse running out of the house towards the field. Mel runs after his son, and finds him peering over into the darkness of the hole. At that point they make an even shocking discovery - nearby in the woods, is Barney the dog, seemingly alive and well. Believing that the hole has supernatural powers, Mel throws his wife's ashes into the hole.

The mystery of the bottomless hole for Mel becomes an all consuming life changing journey of discovery.

 

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