The son of a schizophrenic mother and abusive father must unravel the mystery of his frightening visions before he succumbs to madness.
One day, while working at a small film processing business to help pay for school, Matt, the son of an alcoholic father and a schizophrenic mother, begins to see the image of a mysterious man in photographs taken by different people in small towns all over the country. When he learns that no one else can see the man, he fears he may have inherited his mother's schizophrenia and sets out to reclaim his sanity by unraveling the supernatural mystery, but instead of leading him out of darkness, his quest takes him into a black labyrinth of true evil.—anonymous
Matt (MIKE MOWEN) is a first-generation college student working his way through school at a small film processing business a business dying in light of digital photography. Raised by an abusive, alcoholic father (THOMAS TRGOVAC) he cannot confront and a schizophrenic mother (STEPHANIE OBRIEN) he cannot save, Matt struggles to escape the hardships of his life. One day at work, he notices the image of a mysterious man in photographs taken by different people from small towns all over the country a man in a dark coat with a weathered fedora hung over his eyes. When he discovers that no one else can see the man, not even his best friend Charlie (ELIZABETH WYLD), he begins to fear that he has inherited his mothers schizophrenia. His future seems hopeless until he learns that Lindsay (BEX ETTER), a classmate, can also see the man. After some convincing, Lindsay joins forces with Matt and Charlie to help unravel the secret of the mysterious man who disappears from digital photos and photocopies. Their investigation grows serious when Lindsay begins appearing in the photographs and they are ultimately steered to a small town in Maryland, where the mystery of the man in the photographs is unveiled, and to a large farmhouse, where they discover that instead of leading them out of darkness, their journey has led them into a black labyrinth of true evil and forced Matt to confront his greatest fear.
