Midnight is the darkest hour

Fear is spreading among the God-fearing residents of the small town of Bottom Springs, Louisiana. A mysterious vampire figure kills sinners on moonless nights. Or is he perhaps a man of flesh and blood? When a human skull is found in a swamp, the locals have a clear idea: The stories about the Creeper will not be just stories.

Librarian Ruth Cornier has always felt like an outsider in Bottom Springs. And this despite the fact that the words of her beloved father, which sound from the pulpit in the Church of the Holy Fire, have the same weight as the law. But now everyone is more afraid of superstitions than God and the devil, which terrifies everyone around them. It seems that only Ruth and Everett, her longtime friend with a dark past, can uncover the secret and find the true source of evil. They gradually become closer to each other, but at the same time the line between light and darkness is dangerously blurred. How far will Ruth go to protect the one she loves most?

A mysterious Southern thriller about obscurantism in a closed small-town community, about obsession with love and the animal instincts that we all have within us.