When Erik invites his old college friends to spend nine days in the remote village he now calls home, it sounds like the perfect escape. Västermark is beautiful. The tables are always full. The villagers are always smiling. Nobody locks their doors. Nobody ever seems tired. As the Autumn Offering festival draws closer, the line between celebration and sacrifice begins to blur, and the five visitors realize something is deeply wrong beneath the golden fields. By the ninth day, only one of them will understand the truth.