Somewhere deep in the heartland, a creature of mysterious origin emerges from a lake to threaten the idyllic, isolated town of Fort Hope. Abe Wallace, a disabled pharmacy clerk with a troubled past, is forced to join an unlikely band of heroes that includes a brilliant high school math teacher, her teenage daughter, a racist farmer, and his comatose adoptive sister. Together, they must find a way to work together to decode a series of supernatural messages to defeat a monster that has only one goal: The complete destruction of a town that may not be worth saving after all. The Girl and the Monster is a horror-thriller about what happens when the darkest nightmares of a town's past come to destroy everything that they hold dear.