- A same-sex couple move to a small town to enjoy a better quality of life and raise their daughter with strong social values. But when neighbors throw a very strange party, nothing is as it seems in their picturesque neighborhood.
- A same-sex couple move to a small town so they can enjoy a better quality of life and raise their 16 year-old daughter with the best social values. But nothing is as it seems in their picturesque neighborhood. And when Malik sees the folks next door throwing a very strange party, something shocking has got to give.
- In the eighties, two young boys are kissing in the back of a car, then another car appears. Back in the present, Aaron and Malik and their daughter-from Aaron-travel to a new house. When they are in the end of a bridge, something that seems a bird hits the frontal crystal, leaving a sort of spiral. Once in the new house late at night, Kayla is on her room and the couple is talking. From outside, a figure in a hood observes the house. The next day, Malik wakes up alone and starts unpacking their things, among them a computer. He is a ghostwriter, and he is writing a biography about a conservative man who believes in traditional values as in traditional family, etc. Then he takes out from a box a pair of glasses from the other young boy whom he was kissing in the eighties. When he is outside the house throwing the garbage, a man named Reinhart stares at him and then leaves without saying hello to Malik.
Late at night, Malik wakes up hearing noises. He walks through the house as everyone is asleep but not seeing anything he goes back to sleep and the next morning he cuts a branch that hitting the window was causing the noises. Tiffany, their neighbor, knocks on their door the next morning to offer a flower, and she realizes that they are a gay couple. Later in the morning, Kayla is impressing some curriculum vitae to search for a work and Malik is alone at home working on his biography. He goes jogging and when he comes back he finds a graffiti with the word "Faggots" inside the house. Another flashback with the young boy shows him screaming while the other boy is outside the car. At night, he is covering the graffiti without telling to anyone what was there. They are celebrating that Kayla got a work dancing in family, and from outside, Reinhart is watching the house.
Late at night, he is shocked because a picture of the family he put on a board is missing. The next day in the morning Malik is talking to someone by phone very upset about the fact that the world has not changed the view they have about homosexuality because of the graffiti, and it is revealed that he has installed a security system. Then, Aaron arrives and he hangs up quickly. Then they go to a party with the neighbors, where they meet Tiffany's husband, Marshall. At the party, Malik sees again Reinhart and when he looks again where he was, he is not there anymore. Already at the house, Malik wakes up again, hearing noises. This time he takes a bat and walks through the house. When he arrives to the waiting room, he gets very frightened when he sees a figure watching him from outside. In the porch, the figures runs out of his view and the alarm system begins to sound. Malik follows the figure outside the house, it is Reinhart, and this one gives a piece of paper to Malik, and he says not to telling anyone. When Aaron shows up at the balcony, the man pretends to have lost his keys, and he goes away walking. Aaron gets very angry about the alarm system, and then they go to sleep.
The next morning, Malik checks the piece of paper, but he can not see anything on it. On the other hand, Kayla has made a new friend, Tiffany's son, and she spends the day with him playing video games and smoking. Later that night, when Malik is still working on her biography, he sees something strange through the window. He watches over Reinhart's house, and there is a group of people in a circle, swinging left to right repeatedly. As Malik approaches the window to better see what it is happening across the street, Marshall appears on the left side of the window, contemplating the group. Malik then takes Kayla's Polaroid and look through the lens. The group has started to holding hands in the air and one of them approaches the window and is looking to Malik's direction, just standing there. Malik then turn off all the lights and the man standing still looks at Marshall and they both closes the curtains.
The next day Reinhart is dead and as Malik and Aaron are contemplating the ambulance to go away, Marshall and Tiffany arrives. The aforementioned tells the couple that the nephew of Reinhart, Matthew, called them, and they performed a kind of ritual to say goodbye. Later the same morning, Malik enters a neighbor's house-Reinhart's house-the one where he saw the ritual. He takes a frame with a picture and at that precise moment someone enters the house. Malik leaves the frame fall to the floor out of fear and although the nephew, Matthew, sees the frame in the floor, he can not see anyone there. Kayla decides to skip work and go with Marshall's son to the bridge they had the accident with the bird.
That same night, Malik and Aaron are dining in Tiffany and Marshall's house. Malik wants to go to the bathroom, but he enters a room full of books instead. He looks through the room, and then he sees a picture of what it seems to be the son of Marshall and Tiffany, but in the frame he reads 1792. Later, Marshall enters the room, and he explains to him that the man is called Richard, and it was his great great something, and they leave the room. Late at night, Malik is working in his book and a car arrives from behind with the lights on, he approaches the window not able to see anything because of the lights. Suddenly, he finds himself outside the house and another flashback shows the young boys on the back of the car. As the other boy is putting on his glasses, from the other car descend two man, one of them with a bat, and they advance to the young boys' car. When the one with the bat breaks the window where the other young boy sits, Malik wakes up in his studio from what it is supposed to be a nightmare.
The next day, Matthew knocks to the door and Malik opens. He says that he needs to speak to him about his grandparent, and Malik lets them in. They sit in the waiting room, and he tells him that his grandparent was not good mentally. Matthew asks Malik if he gave something to him, but he lies and says no. Seconds after, Matthew appears near to him-seconds before he was across the table-and he tells him that they told him it was a suicide. He starts crying, and he approaches Malik and starts hugging him and caressing him. But then Aaron arrives and they both get up the couch quickly. Later, when they are about to sleep Aaron and Malik talk about Matthew a little and then Aaron turns off the lights, as the room is pitch dark they start to kiss each other. Seconds later, they hear Kayla screaming and in panic. When they arrive to Kayla's room, she is still screaming and covered in blood. When Malik enters the room, and he looks at the ceiling, he sees a big stain of blood. Malik goes to the attic, and he sees a bunch of dead animals, and he throws them into the garbage while Kayla takes a shower.
Malik is more and more mentally affected by the situation, not talking much over dinner for example and having more nightmares. While having the last one, they are a bunch of people outside the house with hoods watching the house. Then he is in the bathroom with Aaron taking a shower together, but Kayla knocks at the door, and then he is alone, and he has been in the shower like an hour. Later, he achieves to decipher the note the grandparent of Matthew gave to him. He sees a lot of numbers-Sudoku like but without the lines- and he goes to the library to check on the Internet and after consulting a lot of newspapers he arrives to the conclusion that there is something wrong with the town, and he asks Aron to move out, but he does not think it is necessary. Then Malik explains to him that Reinhart was trying to warn them and that the note he gave to him was full of dates. Specifically, one that leads to a murder of a lesbian couple ten years ago. When Malik tries to say that Tiffany and Marshall did not say anything to them, Aaron tells him that they already mentioned that to him but because of Malik isolation, he never speaks to them.
After the conversation with Aaron, Malik speaks by phone with Liam, and he tries to calm down Malik, telling him that the numbers do not make sense. It is clear that at this point Malik is more and more paranoid. The next morning he goes out for a run and people in town stares at him. That same night, as he arrives to chapter two of his book, he goes to the house of the lesbian couple. There he sees a kind of ghost of a woman and thanks to her Malik finds a series of tapes. When he comes back to the house, he can not find his hard drive and Aaron is outside. When they meet him, the latter gives him a series of Polaroids in a sexual attitude with Matthew-the nephew of Reinhart-. Aaron decides to kick him out of the house, but Malik insists in that everything that is happening is because of the people in town. When Malik enters the house again, is very angry and without noticing, one of the tapes goes under the table of his computer. He looks at the PC and sees that there is a CD with his work inside the drive, so he takes it before leaving.
Later, he takes Kayla from School where she had an incident and at night he goes outside Aaron's house in his car and stays there a while. Then, he decides to go to Marshall's home and goes inside to take a drink and talk about the breakup. Marshall says to him that he has his hard drive, and he saw "the folder". Malik, apparently, does not know what he is talking about. Again, when Marshall enters a room and Malik goes to him, he appears behind him sitting in a chair in another room, as Matthew did. He keeps telling him that his secret is safe and that he has a problem. Malik takes the hard drive and gets out of the house.
In the next scene, Malik is arriving to a motel. The first thing he does is looking through the window to see is there is someone there. Then he takes out from his jacket a book with a spiral on its spine. Without Marshall noticing, he took a book from his library. A couple of seconds later, he enters the bathroom to take some medication and a then a gun, and he goes again to the bedroom. This time, when he tries to talk to Liam, the operator says that it could not be possible to connect with him because the number may not exist. When he hangs up and looks over the window, a shadow of a satanic figure is projected in the curtains-a sort of human figure with goat head and horns-. Seconds later, a couple is talking about finding the keys and the shadow transforms in someone leaning to take them. When Malik looks back to the room, the figure of the ghost woman appears again, and she frights him, but she disappears within seconds.
Malik starts to watch the tapes he found inside the house and Hannah, one of the women of the lesbian couple, documented everything in those tapes. He is talking with Liam again and as the tapes advance it is clear that the same thing that happened to Hannah it seems to happened to them; for example the graffiti with "Dykes" instead of "Faggots". Malik arrives to the conclusion that each ten years someone is "selected" and something bad happens to them, but it is not clear what. Inside the book, looking for clues, he sees the human with horns figure, a flower Tiffany offered to him when they first meet and what it seems to be satanic stuff. He also finds the picture with Aaron and him as drag queens-the one which disappeared mysteriously-and with their eyes crossed out. At that precise moment, his head starts aching a lot, and he goes to the bathroom to take his medication. There he realizes that "them" changed it. He wants to tell to Liam, but again the disconnected number or non-existent appears. In the video, mother and daughter speak to each other and then Malik remembers Kayla. He takes his car, and he arrives to Aaron's house.
Once at the house, there is a sort of party/reunion, some people who Malik does not know start to laugh as he is screaming calling for Kayla and Aaron. Tiffany finally receives him, and she says to him that it is a very special night. There are people recording everything with a camera and Tiffany continues to speak, adding that everything that it is happening tonight is for her-Kayla-. Malik finds Aaron, and this one tells him that he has been missing for a week, then Marshall welcomes him and Malik shoots him saying that he is protecting Kayla. His son appears crying and screaming at Malik, and Kayla is watching everything from the second floor. The last scene of the sequence shows a birthday cake party with the writing "Sweet 16" and a draw of Aaron, Malik, and Kayla on it.
Malik is now in prison and Aaron goes to visit him. The latter says to him that he and Kayla will go away to the city. Malik adds that he must run away and that he may not understand it, but he did what he had to do. Then, Malik tells Aaron that he could speak to Liam but, although not clearly said, it seems that Liam may be dead because it was the young boy who was beaten in the eighties. Then Aaron leaves and Malik stays in the floor crying that he had no choice. Another flashback to the eighties shows the young boy being beaten with a bat and left, at least unconscious, on the floor. Malik gets out of the car and asks for help, then he takes Liam's glasses. Back in the present, Aaron is talking with Kayla about overcome the situation. The aforementioned goes then to the Malik's studio, and he sees the tape that, unknowingly to Malik, was under the table, and he starts watching it. At a given moment, Hannah is talking about someone entering their home with Marshall and Tiffany, and from the distance her daughter with Tiffany's son can be seen. Everyone in the tape looks exactly as if time had not passed. At a given moment, Aaron's face very shocked is shown and in the background through the windows we see a bunch of people dressed in black with hoods.
Now Malik is sleeping in the cell and Marshall arrives-he is alive indeed-. Then Aaron, after watching the tape, knocks on Kayla's room. Back in the cell, Malik says to Marshall that they could take him instead of Kayla, but Marshall says that it is too late. Aaron is trying that Kayla opens the door, when he hears some noises in the waiting room he goes there to check and the people in hoods are standing there looking at him. He goes back to Kayla's door, this time hitting it with his shoulder. When he finally arrives to open the door, back in the prison again, Marshall starts explaining how they make it work: Malik tried to escape, and he had drugs in his system for another relapse. Then he killed Kayla, his husband and then, himself. In the house the people in hoods are in the same floor that Aaron, and when this one looks inside the room he sees the body of his dead daughter over the bed. Her torso is wide open and Tiffany's son, apparently, eating her guts seated on the bed. Aaron starts to cry horrified, and Tiffany approaches him commenting how beautiful it is the scene. In the cell, Marshall continues telling that because he is different, people fear him, and they will not believe that he is innocent. Marshall adds that it is a human condition to feel fear, and they only exploit this.
The last sequence of the movie shows Tiffany, Marshall, and their son as a Hindi family arrives next to their house. Then it is shown that Malik documented everything, as Hannah did, and he recorded everything on the CD he could save from the PC. He put it on a music CD case, explaining everything for the next family to find it in the attic. The last scene before the credits appear is one of the females of the new family illuminating the attic with her smartphone and finding the CD in a corner while Malik pronounces: "hope is never silent."
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