When a schoolmate thinks she spots a ghost outside her house, Dickey is on the case. Following a meandering trail of clues, he embarks on a whirlwind bike ride from suburbia to a cemetery, a bowling alley to the northern California wilderness, the elusive specter becoming an obsession. The child of a missing father, he suddenly finds himself on the brink of discovering the truth to a mystery that’s haunted him for four years.