1987.  America.  The suburbs.  Old Lady Brogan dies on Halloween trying to light her cigarette.  A cigarette held in the mad conquistador grip of a dead woman all Halloween day.  A cigarette that falls from her hand as her body is carted away.  A cigarette found by two boys who soon after begin being followed by a white plastic grocery sack.  A cigarette they can no longer return because it's been smoked . . . somewhere in Stray Country.