Colton Hardesty is a video game coder with a haunted past. From his youth, he felt like he had to be strong to keep his parents together. His parents’ well-intended, doting attention felt smothering. In addition to subsuming his own needs to keep his family together, he suffered from severe bullying from a classmate, Max. As a defense mechanism, Colton retreated into himself, cutting off his feelings and allowing people around him to think of him as a cold, emotionless monster.

He is continually haunted by dark dreams and nightmares, always with a terrifying, shadowy creature who makes one chilling demand: LOOK AT ME. A year after losing his parents in an accident, Colton is plagued with severe depression and doubts about his sanity. No one can see the creature that he sees in every shadow. When the creature haunting Colton’s fears begins to physically manifest in the real world, he enlists the help of his doctor to bring forward the repressed memories from his past.

As he struggles, the shadowy creature even appears in the video game he is coding. It commits acts of revenge against those who wronged him. Can he find some clues to the purpose of this creature before he loses himself to it? Can he do it before it’s too late?