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The story is set in a small town (Maybrook, Pennsylvania) where something deeply unsettling happens: seventeen children from the same third-grade class mysteriously vanish from their homes one night — all at exactly 2:17 a.m., leaving behind a single child, Alex Lilly, who does not disappear.
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The teacher of the class, Justine Gandy, is placed on leave, ostracized by the community, and struggles with depression and alcoholism in the aftermath.
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The film follows multiple threads: parental anguish (e.g. Archer Graff, father of one missing child), law enforcement trying to get answers, mysterious events around Alex’s home, and the community’s fear and suspicion.
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There’s a supernatural element: Alex’s elderly aunt, Gladys, turns out to be a witch or some mystical caretaker who uses dark magic / ritual to enchant people. She has been drawing in the missing children to her house, keeping them in a catatonic or enchanted state in her basement in order to sustain or rejuvenate herself.
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The resolution involves Justine and Archer confronting the supernatural force, battling enchanted figures, and trying to free the children. In a climactic sequence, the children themselves turn on Gladys and destroy her, breaking her hold and freeing those she had controlled. Some children remain catatonic, but presumably recover or are united with families. Alex ends up moving away due to his parents being institutionalized.
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