Just Look Closer

<p>Rafe is a man defined by absence-absence of career absence of connection absence of risk. He fills the void by meticulously observing his beautiful free-spirited neighbor Thessa from the safety of his darkened California apartment. Through the lens of his camera he constructs a beautiful controlled reality documenting her every move convincing himself that his voyeurism is merely harmless archiving.</p><p>But one night Rafe witnesses a violent altercation. He sees Thessa struggling with an unknown man a struggle that ends in what appears to be murder. Driven by a sudden desperate urge to be a hero-or perhaps just closer to the life he watched-Rafe rushes across the street.</p><p>He finds the door unlocked. He finds a body-but it's the man not Thessa. And Thessa is nowhere to be found.</p><p>Caught standing over the corpse with his fingerprints everywhere Rafe realizes he hasn't intervened in a tragedy; he's walked directly into a trap. As the police uncover his detailed record of Thessa's life Rafe goes from witness to prime suspect in a double murder.</p><p>Now hunted and morally compromised Rafe must shift from voyeur to detective. His search for Thessa leads him to a terrifying discovery: he was never the watcher. He was the watched. Thessa wasn't blissfully unaware; she was the puppeteer using Rafe's obsessive need for control to execute a flawless plan that leaves her rich and Rafe ruined. The only way out is to confront the terrifying woman who weaponized his deepest moral failing.</p>