A blind woman tries to escape her own home after it is invaded by a stranger, but when the intruder imprisons her and reveals his intent is not to kill but to keep her in a state of perpetual fear she must turn her disability into a weapon with which to fight back.

SYNOPSIS:

Cindy, a young woman who recently blinded in a car accident, is terrified of the world she can no longer see. She moves into a new house with her caring older brother, Eric, who has modified the home to accommodate her needs, including impenetrable locks.

During their first night in the new home Eric leaves and promises to return shortly. But hours later Eric still hasn't come back.

Cindy is relieved to hear the familiar sound of his car and the door unlocking. But a strange man, wearing Eric’s face as a mask, tells her "your brother died screaming your name".

Cindy tries to escape and discovers her home is now a prison.

Trapped, terrified, and fearing no other way out, Cindy tries taking her own life, rather than have the Intruder steal it from her. She opens an artery. But the Intruder won't let her die. The Intruder wants to keep her alive...at all costs.

He takes her to hospital and plays her a voicemail from her parents that promises a visit. He threatens to kill Cindy's parents to buy her compliance and together they convince the doctors that they're brother and sister and that injuries are from a DIY accident.

Back at the house the Intruder reveals he intends to keep Cindy in a constant state of fear. He could kill her, but that would only ever be a passing moment. He claims fear shows us for who we are – and Cindy hides a secret.

While the Intruder toils away in the garage on some unknown endeavour, Cindy lives as his prisoner. But Cindy is secretly biding her time. Remembering her love for her brother and his kind, nurturing nature, she finds the will to live. And to fight. She teaches herself how to echo-locate and begins familiarising herself with every detail of the house and her captor's routines.

When she learns her parents are set to arrive in just two days, Cindy decides to execute an ingenious escape attempt by utilising an assortment of household items and aids for the visually impaired.

The escape attempt fails. Cindy's parents arrive at the house and fall victim to the Intruder's plan to terrify Cindy, trapping them inside a recreated car wreck in the garage. The Intruder reveals that half his family were killed in the same crash that took Cindy's sight - the crash that Eric apparently caused.

In the accident the Intruder was left with a terrible choice - save only one of two family members trapped in the wreck. Motivated by the fear he saw in the eyes of his dying family, the Intruder embarked on a revenge mission - to elicit that same fear in those he deemed responsible for the accident. For Cindy's silence in the aftermath, The Intruder forces Cindy to make the same choice he had to - save only one. Her mother or father? But saving one will kill the other.

Cindy spares the lives of her parents when she confesses that she was driving the car the night of the crash. Following the accident, she and Eric fled and assumed new identities. Outraged, the Intruder makes one final attempt to terrify Cindy - he takes Cindy for a drive, speeding and swerving dangerously and threatening to crash. But Cindy is no longer afraid. What she feared the most, since the accident, was who she had allowed herself to become.

FEAR