 In Alexandria, Virginia, sixteen-year-old Dara Kernof (Emily Perkins), a severely mentally and physically challenged girl confined to a wheelchair, somehow manages to leave her house in the middle of the night, soon after her baptism. Her father, Lance (Eric Keenleyside), finds her in the middle of the street, with her arms raised upward, kneeling before a Dark Figure. Suddenly, lightning flashes and the Dark Figure disappears. When Lance reaches Dara, he realizes she is dead and that her eyes are gone, as if having been burned out of their sockets.
