“I am, first and foremost, an artist. The murders are but provision.”

- The Family Man

In a world horribly altered by a mysterious year-long phenomenon dubbed the Great Darkness of 1999, the Family Man—a serial killer for whom dreaming and killing are intertwined—wanders the strange new landscape searching for answers.

Haunted by the powerful Red Dream visited upon him by the enigmatic Shepherd of Wolves, the Family Man stumbles across a kill list containing the names of other monstrous serial killers, some even more infamous than he. They have been drawn into the Shepherd's Game—the ultimate contest of killers—and the prize is worth every drop of blood spilled in its name.

As the Family Man resolves to strike the killers' names from his list and unravel the mystery of the Shepherd of Wolves, his own personal war against the waking world demands a heavy price—he must first wake the demons of his suppressed past.