Carl Weber, 26, was an ordinary college dropout and part-time grocery store stock clerk in small town America until he made a name for himself as a completely different kind of person: a vampire. Carl's bizarre claim was accompanied by an equally bizarre lawsuit: Carl claimed that he should be allowed to work at night, despite the fact that his small town employer was only open during the day.
Toby Sheldon, 35, owns and operates 'Bat Comics' in Greenville. Toby's background is in finance, but he left his career in San Francisco to pursue a life long dream and become a comic book store owner. Toby's passion is comic books, followed closely by his devotion to his friends.
Cassie Barnes, 23, works in the local thrift store, and is an amateur poet. She is an outsider in Greenville's social world; her only close friends are Carl and Toby. Cassie has been Carl's most vocal supporter, but has also never hesitated to voice her doubts about his vampirism.
Greenville California (population 2500) is a quiet community swept neatly into a corner of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Carl's claims, and the subsequent lawsuit that followed, made this town famous for a few days in early December 2005.
