When local prosecutor Autopsy Bliss publishes an invitation to the devil to come to the heatwave-scorched town of Breathed Ohio nobody expects that he will turn up especially as a tattered thirteen-year-old boy. Fielding the son of Autopsy brings the boy home and he is welcomed into the family. The Blisses believe the boy who calls himself Sal is a runaway. Then as a series of strange incidents implicate Sal - the townsfolk begin to believe that Sal is exactly who he claims to be…