When all but one of 18 children from the same elementary school class inexplicably get out of bed, leave their homes, and vanish into the dark at exactly 2:17 a.m. one night, the small town of Maybrook is plunged into a swirling vortex of chaos, grief, paranoia, and anger.

Neither do the police, nor the Ring cameras affixed to the facades on several neighborhood homes, though at least the latter capture footage of kids bounding through their front doors, arms splayed like wings,

Starring Josh Brolin and Julia Garner, the ‘Barbarian’ director’s new film follows the aftermath of a mysterious tragedy in which 17 children go missing on the same night.