Mr. and Mrs. DeSmet are determined to get a youth program going at their church, despite their wayward daughter’s contention that today’s teens have way better things to do with their time. Besides, the congregation’s kids have scared off half a dozen youth directors already—what chance could naïve, soft-spoken, unflappably optimistic Shane Smith possibly have?
Shane kicks off the new program with a Halloween lock-in, which brings master manipulator and future prom queen Christine DeSmet, her younger sister, and two of her girlfriends, some local boys who've barely hit puberty, a strict matronly chaperon, and others under the same roof for the night. The last thing Christine expects to happen is for three very good-looking, very rough-looking older guys named Blade, Ace, and Ripper to walk in, reporting to an alternative detention center for juvenile offenders. Turns out the new youth director may have made a small mistake on the ministry's website - and a bigger mistake in literally locking them all in.
Add into the mix a storm outside that has knocked out both power and phone lines; the mysterious disappearance of all their cell phone batteries; the disturbing presence of a twelve-year-old, self-confessed pyromaniac; the only half-welcome attentions of the Future Felons of America; and worst of all repeated sightings of a creepy janitor who was supposed to have left the building hours ago... And we're in for an interesting night. More than one person in this nightmare of a lock-in might not be who, or what, they appear. Including the church’s new youth director!