The off-season's always dead in the lakeside resort town of Silent Hill, but not THIS dead. It seems that the entire town is deserted except for Harry Mason, a distraught motorist in search of his missing daughter, and Cybil Bennet, a beutiful police officer from a neighboring community dispatched to Silent Hill to discover why all communication from the sleepy resort town has ceased. Where has everyone gone? Is the small, shadowy figure that constanly eludes Harry his daugher, Cheryl? If so, why does she run from him? Bracing himself against the winter chill, Harry sets off into the unnaturally thick fog to investigate..