Teenager Tim Webber and his friends Baghi and Nick decide one night on a dare to sneak out and steal crocodile eggs from a nearby zoo. Things take a tragic turn when the plan backfires and Nick ends up being killed by a crocodile. Fifteen years later, on the death of his father, Tim returns home to Somerset. But there is a sinister undercurrent to the idyllic village setting that seems to harbour a dark secret. People have been disappearing, and it all seems to be centred around the old Sabre Stone Quarry.

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