While visiting her American relatives, Chidinma, a soft-spoken Nigerian girl, notices a shadow slinking around the house. She avoids it, spending very little time in her room and not sleeping at night. But she fails and the creature comes for her. Her aunt and uncle refuse to believe that there’s a monster under the bed so, when the creature emerges again, the two girls are forced to stand up to not just it, but also the adults in the house.