DESCRIPTION OF THE
STORY -The story centers on a family
(Husband, wife and two children) who lose their way while traveling in their
motorized van. They find a café in a rural small town, hoping to find their
way back home. The café’s owner, employees and customers reflect the
uneventful, stifled, unchanging lives of the town inhabitants. The family
discovers that a dangerous BEAR lives in a nearby forest and stalks the town
streets late at night. When the family’s young daughter, Katie, is nowhere
to be found, the citizens at the café mobilize a search for her in the
forest. In the process, the remains of long – lost friends and relatives are
found, THE BEAR kills three searchers, THE BEAR itself is shot, wounded, and
limps away and Katie is saved. The family, with renewed spirit, then heads
back home.