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Synopsis

ANGELA RODRIGUEZ is an award winning screenwriter and former professional mixed martial arts fighter. She grows up being sexually abused by her father, ALEXANDER RODRIGUEZ, which causes Angela to battle depression and get involved in unhealthy relationships throughout her life.

Later in life, Angela marries DAVID STEVENS. After five years, Angela tells David she wants a divorce. He doesn't take it well and a fight occurs where she almost kills him. After the incident, Angela suffers a mental breakdown and David is left in a coma. Angela attends weekly sessions with a psychiatrist, DR. JOHN RIVERS. He diagnoses Angela with depression and anxiety, which stems from her horrific childhood. This disorder makes it difficult for Angela to trust men, even MARK DIAZ, her current boyfriend. Her inability to trust Mark eventually drives them apart.

While Angela writes her newest screenplay, a thriller, centering on a serial killer, JOSHUA NORWOOD, disturbing and bizarre things begin to happen to her. In fact, some of the things in Angela's script are happening to her in real life. When Angela shares with Dr. Rivers that someone is terrorizing her, he isn't too sure considering her mental condition. Before Angela succumbs to madness she asks her best friend, ELLEN SANDERS, to help her figure out what is going on.

Joshua, the serial killer in Angela's script, comes to life and convinces her that they have been friends since her childhood. He offers to help Angela by killing people who have caused her so much pain. She agrees.

One evening Angela awakens from a nightmare. When she opens her eyes, she is hit in the head with a pipe. Angela awakens to find herself tied up in SHANE SHAW, her neighbor's, basement. He has been terrorizing Angela because thirteen years ago she broke his heart when she ended their relationship. After two days go by, Angela is able to break loose from the duct tape binding her legs and hands. In doing so, she uses her MMA skills, beats Shane up, and kills him.

Angela tells Dr. Rivers about Joshua, stating they are best friends. Dr. Rivers questions Angela about why she never told him about Joshua, who is only supposed to be a character in her script. He asks to meet Joshua. Angela says she'll bring Joshua to meet the doctor later that night.

Angela, who has been suffering to keep her depression away, finally gives in when she talks to Joshua, telling him she is constantly in pain pretending she's okay when she's not. Joshua, who sees Angela holding a pair of scissors states they will still be together even after Angela's dead.

After her attempted suicide, Angela is admitted to a Pennsylvania mental health hospital where it is revealed by Dr. Rivers that she created Joshua to "kill" people who abused or hurt her, but in reality Joshua killed no one because he never existed. He was only a character in her script and in her life. This was Angela's way of surviving the emotional pain from being abused by several men in her life and being betrayed by her mother.

A year later, Angela is released from a retreat for yoga and meditation therapy. She is a new woman, feeling healthy physically and mentally. Now at peace, Angela can enter into a loving, wholesome relationship with Mark, and they can start a new life together.