Paraffin, Vermont, is home to the Grosholtz Candle Factory. There,
17-year-old Poppy finds something dark and unsettling: a room filled
with dozens of startlingly lifelike wax sculptures. Later, she's shocked
when one of the figures - a teenage boy who doesn't seem to know what he
is - jumps naked and screaming out of the trunk of her car. Poppy wants
to return him to the factory, but before she can, a fire destroys the
mysterious workshop. With the help of the wax boy, who answers to the
name Dud, Poppy tries to find out who was behind the fire. Along the way
she discovers that some of the townspeople are starting to look a
little...waxy. Can they extinguish the evil plot?