![]() ![]() When it turns out that his friends got the same message, they think it could be a prank. But then he gets a letter in the mail, containing a single chalk stick figure. ![]() In 2016, Eddie is fully grown, and thinks he's put his past behind him. But then a mysterious chalk man leads them right to a dismembered body, and nothing is ever the same. The chalk men are their secret code little chalk stick figures they leave for one another as messages only they can understand. They spend their days biking around their sleepy little English village and looking for any taste of excitement they can get. In 1986, Eddie and his friends are just kids on the verge of adolescence. ![]()
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