The town of Wilton in regional NSW is befallen by an extraterrestrial plague which turns its residents into arachnid monsters. In one night, eighty percent of the people have begun to mutate. It is up to twelve-year-old Kyle Yates, a boy who has been shunned by his community in the past for his reckless and trouble-making ways, to try and stop what is happening to the village before it manages to spread further.