IT FOLLOWED HIM HOME
Curt Finn walks away from a crash no one should have survived. He comes home to his wife, his kids, his life but something in him didn’t come back whole. At first, it’s just a feeling. A shadow in the hallway. A voice at the edge of sleep. Then the anger starts to surface. The fear. The things he’s never said, now louder than ever.
His family starts to pull back. His kids flinch when he enters the room. And Nat, the woman who’s stood beside him through everything, begins to wonder if the man she married is still in there at all.
But this isn’t a possession.
What’s
haunting their home is
Curt.
Every buried thought.
Every violent impulse.
Every part of himself he’s spent a lifetime pushing down
has taken shape, and it wants out.
Now, with his family slipping away and the walls closing in,
Curt has to face the truth:
It’s not coming for him.
CURT FINN
Curt is the kind of man who never asks for help. A contractor by trade, a father by instinct, and someone who’s learned to keep his head down and hold the line. But after he survives the crash, something comes back with him. It’s subtle at first. How quiet he gets. How long he stares into the dark. Then it grows. Curt starts losing time. Hearing things. Seeing something that isn’t there. Or maybe it is.
The man who used to fix everything is now the one breaking it apart, and what’s rising inside him isn’t grief.
It’s something older, something buried.
And it wants out.
NAT FINN
Nat is the one who holds it all together. She always has. Two kids. A worn-out mortgage. A husband who’s never really known how to talk. But she keeps it going. Until Curt comes back different. She doesn’t want to believe it at first. Who would? But the man in her house feels like a stranger. And the stranger feels like a threat.
Nat’s strength isn’t loud. It’s the kind that waits. Watches. And finally steps forward when no one else can.
She’s not trying to save Curt anymore.
She’s trying to save her family from him.
DR GARDNER
Dr. Gardner doesn’t rattle easy. She’s spent years studying the mind. Mapping trauma. Helping people put themselves back together. But what Curt brings into her office isn’t just trauma. It’s something else. Something colder. She’s seen it before, though no one believed her then.
Her calm isn’t kindness. It’s control.
Her voice cuts through denial like a scalpel.
Gardner isn’t here to coddle Curt. She’s here to make him look the thing in the eye.
And it might just kill him to do it.
MARTHA WAGNER
Most people in town think Martha lost her mind a long time ago. She talks too much about shadows. About her brother. About things no one wants to remember. But Martha remembers everything.
She saw the change. She saw what it did. And she carries the guilt like a second skin.
Now she watches. Waits. And when she sees it in Curt; the same look, the same silence she knows what’s coming. No one believed her before. She won’t make that mistake again.
Martha isn’t here to warn anyone.
She’s here to stop it. Whatever it takes.