Two years after her father's mysterious disappearance, high school senior Liv Fleming wants to forget about her father's obsession with aliens, his insistence that he was abducted, and his traps that he set up in the forest to catch creatures that were after him. On the day Liv decides to destroy the traps, she discovers she's captured a humanoid in one of them, and that her father was telling the truth. Liv and her friend Doug Monk, a town recluse who worshipped her father, capture the alien and torture it out of anger in the hopes of getting information about her father, but eventually Liv decides to dig deeper and uncovers a government conspiracy.