A six year old boy and his family are camping in the mountains near his uncle's estate.

His baby sister of two and a half wanders away from the camp site and th e family split into two groups to search for her. It is near dusk when the boy f alls into an unmarked abandoned mine shaft. He has landed in a shallow pool of water at the bottom of the shaft. Though most ly uninjured he is trapped in darkness. From above can barely make out his mothe r's voice. She calls out for him to stay put while they search for a way down to him in the nearby cave system. After some time he hears