This is the story of a young woman who wants to stop the leader of a cult that is targeting children. The main character's early years were spent in a closed religious community with very strange rules. One day, she returns to her hometown and comes face to face with a past she has long tried to forget. Discovering that children are being kidnapped in the area, tormented by worry, the woman decides to expose the cult. She enters into a dangerous confrontation with those she knows all too well... In "The Clearing," she takes a stand against the ones she knows too well.