The narrator moves to his parents' empty house in the woods to escape his unhappy life in the city after his wife left him. While staying at the house, he hears strange noises outside one night and discovers a mysterious note in the basement. Overcome with fear, he immediately flees the house and returns to the city, never learning what happened in the woods. Years later, he realizes the noises were just the wind and the note was from childhood games, but he is still too afraid to return to the house.