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When Jenine finds an abandoned polaroid camera, she playfully snaps a photo without a second thought. But there's something wrong with the image: a ghostly figure stands in the background, watching her. Fixated on her. Moving one step closer with every picture she takes.

A combat cameraman serving his last mission in Iraq, Newman is ready to finally settle down with his fiancée. But on January 1, 2002, an IED explodes, overturning his up-armored Humvee. Death meets all his comrades, while Newman falls into a coma. Under the order of an anonymous CIA director, Newman is hidden from the world and sent to a top-secret research facility, where he is implanted with a device to capture and record his thoughts. And for 20 years, he remains there - until the day he awakens.

I’ve always felt like the main character in a movie… but never in a good way. Selena Holmes spent her life watching herself from the outside, as if she were just a character playing a role—trapped in a script she never wrote. Raised by a distant father and an absent mother, she longed for love but only found it in the wrong places. Heartbreak, betrayal, and self-doubt became the soundtrack of her life. She tried to fix people who didn’t want to be saved. She fought for love that was never enough. She kept running—toward something, away from something, she was never sure which.