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Veteran nurse Rebecca Lowe takes on a palliative care assignment at the remote, decaying Kiri estate, seeking quieter work after a traumatic attack during her years in emergency nursing. Her patient, Edward Kiri, is elderly, grief-stricken, and dependent on a pacemaker that has begun to misfire in ways she cannot explain. The house itself feels oppressive, heavy with old sorrow and strange stillness.
Edward is often visited by Tobias Thorn, a poised, impeccably polite funeral director who claims to be a companion and support. But Tobias always arrives early, moves soundlessly through the house, and seems to know far too much about Edward’s past — and about Rebecca herself. His presence unsettles her, though she cannot identify why.
As the days pass, Edward grows increasingly anxious, reporting that Tobias whispers to him at night and speaks of his dead son “waiting in the fire.” Rebecca witnesses’ subtle shifts in Edward’s condition — unexplained drops in heart rhythm, unnatural warmth around the pacemaker site, and deepening dread in his eyes whenever Tobias enters the room.
Rebecca’s attempts to intervene are met with patient gaslighting. Tobias gently twists her exhaustion, her past trauma, and her professional guilt into narratives that frame her as unstable. He isolates her emotionally in the same way he isolates Edward physically. Rebecca begins to fear she is losing her grip on reality — until she finds evidence suggesting otherwise.
Veteran nurse Rebecca Lowe takes on a palliative care assignment at the remote, decaying Kiri estate, seeking quieter work after a traumatic attack during her years in emergency nursing. Her patient, Edward Kiri, is elderly, grief-stricken, and dependent on a pacemaker that has begun to misfire in ways she cannot explain. The house itself feels oppressive, heavy with old sorrow and strange stillness.
Edward is often visited by Tobias Thorn, a poised, impeccably polite funeral director who claims to be a companion and support. But Tobias always arrives early, moves soundlessly through the house, and seems to know far too much about Edward’s past — and about Rebecca herself. His presence unsettles her, though she cannot identify why.
As the days pass, Edward grows increasingly anxious, reporting that Tobias whispers to him at night and speaks of his dead son “waiting in the fire.” Rebecca witnesses’ subtle shifts in Edward’s condition — unexplained drops in heart rhythm, unnatural warmth around the pacemaker site, and deepening dread in his eyes whenever Tobias enters the room.
Rebecca’s attempts to intervene are met with patient gaslighting. Tobias gently twists her exhaustion, her past trauma, and her professional guilt into narratives that frame her as unstable. He isolates her emotionally in the same way he isolates Edward physically. Rebecca begins to fear she is losing her grip on reality — until she finds evidence suggesting otherwise.
