A man with a compulsive disorder abducts a young girl and imprisons her in his basement for sexual purposes. Years later, he is tracked by a retired police detective and “remote viewer” with a parallel past trauma and apparent psychic abilities. 

SYNOPSIS:

Jeffrey Hopper is an obsessive-compulsive who exercises complete control over every element of his life and lives by a robotically rigid routine. He has taken refuge in a wholly delusional reality populated by aliens and androids and run by a vast, mysterious conspiracy. His obsession for control—combined with his delusional mental state—has led him to abduct a young girl, Sofi, and keep her prisoner in his basement. Jeffrey’s elaborate self-justification is that he wishes to protect her from “the Conspiracy,” but behind this is the desire to create a programmed sex slave to satisfy his physical desires without compromising his routine. At the start of the film, Jeffrey is having troubling controlling Sofi, and we see that the power play between them is shifting.

Vincent McKenna is an ex-Marine with experience in the field of remove viewing. He is a psychic, in short, who has left government service in disillusionment but who occasionally uses his gift to help the local police with cases (i.e., hunting killers). Vincent’s 10-year-old niece went missing some eight years ago, and when Vincent found his psychic abilities useless to track her, he rejected his gift, opened a hardware store, and took refuge in routine life. At the film’s start, he has taken on a case to hunt a killer, without knowing exactly why. This opens the Pandora’s box of his psychism.

As the film progresses, the delusional world of Jeffrey and Sofi gradually overlaps with Vincent’s psychism, as Vincent begins to tune into Jeffrey’s reality and exhibit some of the same obsessions and delusions. At the same time, he begins receiving imagery of Sofi’s desperate plight, and when, by chance, his path crosses with Jeffrey’s, he begins to put the pieces together and sets out to rescue Sofi. (She is not Vincent’s niece, but Jeffrey was also responsible for the niece’s disappearance.) But does Sofi want to be rescued? And is Vincent as blameless as he believes himself to be?

Inspired by the Natascha Kampusch case of 2006, this is a dark and disturbing psychodrama somewhere between a more conventional thriller like Seven and an intimate portrait of psychosexual disturbance, such as Blue Velvet or Taxi Driver.