After a seemingly perfect start to their relationship, Emma marries Simon. But as soon as they return from the honeymoon, Simon changes. He forbids Emma from seeing her friends and parents. He controls their finances. And through a series of cruel, unexplained incidents, he persuades her that sheâs losing her mind. With Emmaâs spirit battered and her passion for painting destroyed after a few months of marriage, she finally admits to herself that sheâs afraid of her husband. The only piece she manages to complete is of a depressing charcoal house, a representation of her tortured life. Then Emma receives a cryptic message from a strangerâand shocking revelations begin to emerge one by one. When the police become involved, events spiral out of control, and Emmaâs loved ones do all they can to help her escape the monsterâs clutchesâbut is it already too late to save her?