Two children living in different countries are visited nightly by a faceless being who wants to take possession of them.

[first lines]
Juan: The shadow monster woke up. It saw the boy in the pot and said:
Juan: [making his voice gruff] "Mmmm. I'm starving. I'm going to eat you up."
Juan: So the monster opened his mouth wide and swallowed the little tailor whole. The boy fell and fell into a dark cave filed with slime...
Luisa: Is that it?
Juan: That's all I could come up with.
Luisa: Well, you'll think of something tomorrow. Let's go to bed.
Old Priest: Antonio, you can't perform such a serious ritual just to settle the nerves of a crazy woman. No matter how pretty she is.
John Farrow: Monsters are cowards. You stand up to them, they run away.
Mia: Not this one.