Tug is a very sportive teenager. After a long walk he comes back to his house, but after he enters the entrance he can’t see anything. The room was too dark. Suddenly he feels an arm around his neck and a hand over his face. What has become of him?
At the same time, two hundred kilometers away in a rural environment - Jinny Slattery, a young girl, lives there with her family. Tonight, Jinny goes with her father to chase a hare. Jinnys family is very special. They get them food by their own hands, because this, Jinny must learn to chase animals. It is a very dark night and Jinny is very afraid.
In the dark silent night, Jinny hears some noise from the cottage near the farm. It is a loud, hammering sound. Her father doesn’t matter; he doesn’t care. While they walk home Jinny thinks about the strange sound from the cottage.
The next morning Tug wakes up, he doesn’t know where he is and what has happened. He finds out that he was kidnapped by some curious people. The couple is Mr. Doyle and Mrs. Hollins. The woman demands him, to call her “ma”. But she is not Tug’s mother. Her mother is in London and searches all the time for Tug. But the man is not better than “ma”, he is very angry. If Tug doesn’t cooperate with them, they’ll take his food away. Tug can’t disappear; he is caged in his bedroom. The only way to contact the outside world is a message on a paper he throws outside the window.