Max Carver's father
- a watchmaker & inventor
- decides to move his family to a small town on the Atlantic coast, to a house built for a prestigious surgeon, Dr Richard Fleischmann & his wife that was abandoned when the couple's son drowned in a tragic accident. Behind the house Max spies an overgrown garden full of statues surrounded by a metal fence topped with a six-pointed star. In the centre of the garden is the large statue of a clown set in another six-pointed star. Max has the curious sensation that the statue is beckoning to him. As the family settles in they grow increasingly uneasy: they discover a box of old films belonging to the Fleischmanns; his sister has unsettling dreams & his other sister hears voices whispering to her from an old wardrobe. But Max spends most of his time with his new friend Rol&, who takes him diving to the wreck of a boat that sank close to the coast in a terrible storm. Everyone on board perished except for one man
- an engineer who built the lighthouse at the end of the beach. As they learn more about the wreck, the chilling story of a legendary figure called Prince of the Mists begins to emerge.