Extraordinary Stories
Release date: 2008-10-04
Votes: 43
Genres: Drama
X arrives in a small town and witnesses a violent act; Z takes the job of a dead manager and discovers that he had a notebook written in code and a map; H is hired to go down a river and investigate a series of mysterious monoliths built on the shore.
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