: Philip is contacted via radio by a man named Tom "Red" Redwood , who has been trapped in the mine for thirty years. Red is clearly unstable, having survived by eating spiders, but he serves as a cryptic guide through the darkness.
The story of follows Philip Buchanan , a thirty-year-old physicist whose life is upended by a letter from his long-lost father, Howard. Although Howard had been legally declared dead for 30 years, the letter leads Philip to a safety deposit box containing cryptic documents and instructions to burn them. Driven by curiosity, Philip instead deciphers the notes, which point to a remote, uninhabited location in northern Greenland . Penumbra: Overture
Inside the mine, Philip discovers that he is not entirely alone. He begins to uncover the following: : Philip is contacted via radio by a