When eleven-year-old Ollie finds a disheveled, weeping woman by the river threatening to throw a book into the water, she doesn't think, she just acts - plucking the book from the woman's hands and running away with it. As Ollie begins to read, she finds herself entranced by a creepy tale, Small Spaces. Set on a farm hundreds of years earlier, it's about a girl, and two boys who loved her and a peculiar deal struck with the Smiling Man, a sinister specter who grants your most tightly held wish, but only for the ultimate price. Ollie is still reading the next day on a school trip to a local farm with a haunting history. There, Ollie discovers not only that the farm is run by the woman whose book she stole, but also the graves of the very people she'd been reading about. More alarming is what happens on the way home: the school bus breaks down, forcing Ollie's teacher to return to the farm for help, leaving his students alone with the oldest bus driver Ollie has ever met. The driver warns Ollie's class that someone or something will soon come for them. It's at this moment that Ollie receives a chilling message of her digital wristwatch, which had been broken for months. The watch suddenly spells out RUN. As night descends and scarecrows in the surrounding fields seem to crowd close - watching them - Ollie thinks the watch might be right. Joined by only two of her classmates, Ollie takes to the woods with one last word of advice from the bus driver ringing in her ears: "Avoid large places at night. Keep to small."