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When a series of mysterious sinkholes begin swallowing parts of the rural town of Elbridge, geologist Mara Vance is called in to investigate. What she finds is not a natural disaster, but the opening of a vast subterranean chamber filled with strange symbols, humming stone monoliths, and a silence so deep it begins to erase sound itself. As townspeople vanish and memories begin to fade, Mara must descend into the dark to confront an ancient force that feeds not on fear, but on forgetting.