 Sharon is a little girl who sleepwalks and has seizures; lately they ve been getting worse. She keeps mentioning the same thing in her trances: Silent Hill. Over the protests of her husband, Sharon s mother (Rose) flees with her child. She ends up driving and crashes. She wakes up in the eerie and deserted town of Silent Hill. Sharon is gone. It s soon clear the town is not like any place she s ever been. It s inhabited by a variety of creatures and a living darkness that descends and literally transforms everything it touches. The human inhabitants - the ones who are left - are trapped and fighting a losing battle against the Darkness. Joined by a cop named Cybil, who was pulled in with her, Rose searches for her little girl while learning the history of Silent Hill.