HARRY MASON is a 32 year old novelist. His wife died a few years before the first game. Three years before she died, Mrs. Mason and Harry found a child on the side of the road outside of Silent Hill. They take the child home and name it Cheryl. For the next 7 years, Harry takes care of Cheryl up until the events of the first game. Harry and Cheryl decide to take a holiday to Silent Hill. While Harry is driving towards the town late at night, he sees a shadow come across the road he is driving on. He tries to avoid it but loses control of his Jeep vehicle and crashes into a ditch. A few hours later in the morning, he awakens to find Cheryl missing.
Harry enters the fogbound Silent Hill in search of Cheryl. Although he sees tantalising glimpses of her, he never quite manages to catch up to Cheryl. As Harry progresses through the game, he meets several characters who help piece together who Cheryl really is. It is Harry's intervention at the end that sets the seeds for Silent Hill 3.
