Nine-year-old Nomy has moved to a new area, where she lives with her mother and grandparents in the last house in a crumbling ghost town. As she explores her surroundings, she hikes every day with her dog through deep forests and farm fields, encountering wild animals and a mysterious mist that seeps among the trees, full of magic and mystery. But what can she do about a pair of bullies who terrorize her, slowly making her life worse and worse? Perhaps the old cat in the dark woods can help her....