Synopsis:Nigel keeps finding Janet acting suspiciously and plans to get rid of her. In in the meantime, in their everyday day lives, strange and dangerous things keep occuring which raises tension between the two. As their relationship falls apart, how will their two teenage children cope, and what is the source of these attacks?
Treatment:
At the beginning, Nigel is shown returning home in his car. A long panning shot shows his car driving up to his house and parking up. A tracking shot shows him as he slowly approaches the front door, and an extreme close up is used to show him opening the door by turning the key. Upon entering the house his face is focused on with a close up as he hears Janet laughing upstairs with another voice - at which point a shot is shown looking up the stairs. Janet is shown laughing in her bedroom but most of the shot is concealed to keep the owner of the other voice concealed. Assuming that she is up there with another man, a close up again shows Nigel's face as he becomes enraged. He is shown moving to lock the door with an extreme close up of the lock again but choosing not to lock it, so to not make much sound. He is then shown sneaking upstairs quietly with a tracking shot whilst Janet's laughing gets louder to show that he is getting closer. He approaches the bedroom door stealthily with a mid shot and bursts into the room in an attempt to surprise Janet. As he bursts in a mid shot is shown from inside the bedroom as he enters, and Janet's shocked face is shown with a close up. Janet is shown to actually just be on the phone with a mid shot that shows her lying on the bed, and a close up of the phone is shown as the person on the other end asks her what has happened and as she ends the call. She is seen trying to hide something with a mid shot - a photograph or letter that she hides in her bedside table - and she acts suspiciously. A mystery character is then shown looking upwards at the house from outside, seeing Janet and Nigel arguing in the bedroom. They enter through the unlocked door, the lock again shown with an extreme close up. This unknown character is never seen and point of view shots are used to track their movements. They are shown entering the house and looking around before sneaking about, going through letters and Nigel's wallet. Nigel and Janet are then shown arguing with a low shot which creates the impression that they are being observed before the shot switches back to the mystery character still sneaking about. They accidentally knock a glass of a table and it smashes on the floor it makes a loud noise, so they panic and are shown hurridly heading for the exit. The noise is heard upstairs and Janet and Nigel stop arguing instantly, and a shot reverse shot shows them questioning the mystery noise from downstairs to each other before they rush out of the bedroom, again showed by a low shot. The mystery character downstairs is shown running towards the door and swinging the door, and an over the shoulder view of Janet and Nigel shows them seeing the door slam shut from the top of the stairs. The opening sequence will end here. The rest of the opening of the film will consist of the man in pursuit of the mystery character and the man and women arguing about their relationship issues and wondering who entered their house uninvited.
In the middle of the film Janet will continue to be caught acting suspiciously by her husband and children (one boy, Paul, 19 and one girl, Lizzie, 16), and Nigel will be shown boiling up to a point that he starts plotting Janet's downfall whilst at the same time a mystery source is shown planning things also. In the meantime, strange occurrences will happen in the man and women's everyday life in which they narrowly avoid serious or fatal injuries on a number of occasions. On a night out the couple will be walking home and a shadowy figure will keep appearing in the distance that will be followed by another strange attack each time. When they return home they will begin to question how all these strange things are happening before Janet starts to accuse Nigel which triggers his rage and causes him to try to kill her, but as he attacks the house sets on fire without warning and they are both forced to escape. They are taken to hospital with their son Paul and learn that their daughter Lizzie perished in the fire, which Janet blames on Nigel. Upon their release from hospital the couple divorce and Janet tries to get Nigel blamed for the accident. Nigel goes to live with his brother whilst Janet goes to live with her mum with Paul, who soon reveals that he would rather move into a flat with his friend which raises suspicion of whether the fire was his doing or not. The couple are shown getting on with their lives, but are still under attack and more mysterious plotting is shown. Soon after, the home where Nigel is living also is set on fire - he just about escapes again but his brother's life is taken. When in hospital everyone - including his ex-wife Janet - come to visit him, apart from his son Paul which raises suspicion again that he created the fire. Paul's everyday life is then briefly shown for the first time and it is made clear that he is a very violent, threatening and aggressive character but also that he is the victim of some odd occurrences like his parents.
Some weeks later, at the memorial for the daughter lost in the first fire, a few artefacts that belonged to her and survived the fire or were not in the fire are on show as mementos of her tragically short life. Nigel and Janet mourn the death of Lizzie away from each other but meanwhile Paul has sneaked off with some of his sister's old possessions. He is shown studying them - it is not shown what he reads but he reacts to it, leaving the memorial without giving a reason which confuses his parents. Nigel follows him in his car, assuming the whole thing to be his fault. When he eventually catches up and confronts his son he attempts to choke him whilst Paul tries desperately tries to explain something. Just as Paul is about to pass out he manages to break free of Nigel's grasp and explains that his mother cannot be left unguarded as he found detailed plans to kill her in his sister's diary once she was unprotected, and that he had left the memorial to alert the police to create a trap for the killer. Nigel does not believe any of it and once again becomes enraged which results in a violent fist fight and Paul leaving his father unconscious in the road. Stealing his father's car he hurries back to where Janet is to find her lying on the floor surrounded by a few other mourners, almost dead. Upon asking how it happened Paul is led by the other mourners into a trap where he confronts his sister Lizzie, who is revealed to have created and escaped the fire. She reveals that Janet has only a few minutes to live due to the wounds she has sustained but if anybody alerted the police she would eventually kill them too. She then reveals plans to kill Paul and Nigel and just as she approaches Paul to stab him she is stopped by Nigel who engages her in a fierce battle which ends up with them both suffering severe wounds. Lizzie prepares to deliver the finishing blow when she is knocked unconscious by Paul. He then calls for ambulances for his parents and his sister. His parents recover fine but Lizzie dies on the way to hospital, and the films concludes with the family mourning their daughter's loss for the second time.
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