After a seemingly perfect start to their relationship, Emma marries Simon. But as soon as they return from the honeymoon, Simon changes. He forbids Emma from seeing her friends and parents. He controls their finances. And through a series of cruel, unexplained incidents, he persuades her that shes losing her mind. With Emmas spirit battered and her passion for painting destroyed after a few months of marriage, she finally admits to herself that shes afraid of her husband. The only piece she manages to complete is of a depressing charcoal house, a representation of her tortured life. Then Emma receives a cryptic message from a strangerand shocking revelations begin to emerge one by one. When the police become involved, events spiral out of control, and Emmas loved ones do all they can to help her escape the monsters clutchesbut is it already too late to save her?
