spoiler experience nightmare walk in her sleep and miss time since she be 4 year old judith english and markie post and teenage daughter katie and candace cmeron and be now go through the same thing . be it genetic or be it something else something with no earthly explanation . the make for tv movie visitor of the night explore the modern day phenomenon of alien abduction that have and since the first report case back in 1961 involve betty and barney hill and go from dime store novel material to be take seriously by million of american as well a ten of million of people all over he world . time just seem to stand still for young katie a she lose touch with her surroundings and find herself mile from the place that she be last at . one even walk out of a friends home during a party when she come back in and in what seem to be a fleeting moment and katie find that the party be over and that three hour have mysteriously pass by . katie for some strange reason fear the night and cover the window in her bedroom to keep the night light and and whatever come with them and out . one even she again disappear minus her eyeglass and which katie can not see a thing without and and be find a day later mile away in a deserted wheat field unhurt and with 20/20 vision . katie also get very bright during her sleep walking disappearance know more about politics in get her dad bryan and stephen mchattie and who run for city councilman elect then his entire election staff put together . judith have recur nightmare go to psychiatrist dr. matt and susan hogan and for help only to find out that what she have be not nightmare at all but suppress memory from her past . she also find that their somehow connect to what her daughter and katie and be have now . fairly good film about alien abduction that not only convince judith and her daughter katie that there not figment of their imagination but the real deal . at the conclusion of the movie we get an explanation from judith on a spaceship with her alien captor and what the real reason for this strange enigma really be represent it have to do with genetic engineering on the alien part . the alien be try to create a race of alien or human hybrid and the the one thing the alien need that million of year of advanced science and over the human race and hasn not give them represent human emotion . without a newborn baby be love and care for by his and or her and mother it lose it ability and will to survive . that the reason that woman all over the earth and like judith and katie and who be abduct and impregnate by the alien and be need by the spaceman to nurture these hybrid baby and give them a reason for living . it those human emotion that the alien and no matter how advance that they be and can never duplicate or instill in themselves . hard to follow at first with a lot of sub plot that it really could do without but when visitor of the night get to the core or heart and soul of it story it very hard not to keep your tear duct from fill up and then spill over .