In 1989, six-year-old Martin Bristoll was kidnapped from his backyard swing in Minersville, Pennsylvania. Graham Sutter, a psychotic recluse, kept Martin imprisoned on his derelict pig farm, forcing him to witness and participate in unspeakable horrors over the course of five long years. The story takes place chronologically prior to the events of Malevolence (2004) and follows an abducted young boy who is forced to bear witness to the crimes of a madman for five gruesome years.