The Past: Missy is standing on the edge of the cornfield, peering into the dark. Her lantern doesn't illuminate much, but she will keep searching no matter how long it takes. The blackness of the Kansas countryside, darker than the dress her Mom wore to Dad's funeral. They were here, she knows it. It's not the voices this time...it is the truth. After Jesus came to her in her sleep, she flushed the pills down the toilet and made her self vomit up the rest. Surely, it must be true...surely it is preordained.
"Space angels take me home." The words echo over and over in Missy's head. Her longing to leave this Earth is great. She will traverse the family cornfield from end to end nearly every restless night until her death.
Five months later: Daisy Jones finds her daughter's body fetal-position, frozen in the middle of the corn stalks. The night before, Missy was so convinced that the little green men were waiting for her, she left her socks and coat in the house. A late fall cold snap brought the hypothermina on quickly. Daisy, now alone in the world will never be the same again. Her big heart broken by dispair.
Yesterday: Officer Daniel Jacobs can never forget Melissa Jones's frozen body or the mysterious child-like foot prints in the snow. His dreams will forever be haunted with the knowledge that some heartless bastards made crop circles in a field around a crazy dead girl.