Anna Rook is in her late twenties and has a
severe anxiety disorder that impacts her life
in many ways. The only person she
relies on is her elder brother
Conard who is dying of pancreatic cancer. They
have no family besides each other which is why
Conard is always worried about his sister.
Moreover, the siblings hide deep secrets in
different corners of the house and are
always wary of who they let inside.
One night, we see Anna playing with an old key
alone in her room. Suddenly, she hears a strange
noise coming from the dark but it turns out to be
Conard sitting outside. He calls her to join him
but Anna rudely declines. The truth is that
she hasn’t left the house in over ten years
because of her anxiety disorder.
The next morning, they are joined by
Conard’s lawyer Charlotte. She has
been called to discuss Conrad’s will
and what Anna will get after his death but Anna
is not ready to have that conversation yet.
Then, we are introduced to Dan, a delivery
guy who brings food for the family
every morning. Other than Conrad, Dan is
the only person Anna enjoys talking to.
He is kind and has won her heart over the
course of time he has been working for them.
As they chat, they hear a loud thud from Conrad’s
room. Anna rushes to her brother and puts him
back on the bed. They spend the entire day
together, talking about different things.
Conrad brings up the topic of their
father and asks Anna to forgive him
but it only makes her angry. A few hours later,
Anna is woken up by her care alarm ringing.
She runs to Conrad’s room and finds him dead.
Despite knowing that this was bound to happen,
nothing in the world could have prepared Anna
for her brother’s death. After the paramedics
take his body away, she cleans up the entire
house and gets rid of all his medicines.
When Anna is at her lowest, Dan comes to
her aid and lends her a shoulder to cry on.
He suggests she sell the house
and move somewhere else but Anna
is too connected to the house to leave it.
As they chat, Dan reveals that he wants to get out
of this town but isn’t financially strong to do
so. Anna abruptly leaves and returns a few minutes
later with a bag full of money. She wants him to
take it and make a better life for himself. Dan,
however, refuses to accept it even though Anna
insists that she has more money than she needs.
The next day is the day of the funeral. Anna gets
ready to leave but her anxiety gets the best of
her at the last moment. She desperately wants to
say a final goodbye to her brother but ends up
staying home, drowning in her thoughts. Suddenly,
a car stops outside and three men approach the
house. They look through the window to ensure
no one is home, looking to rob the place.
Anna panics but before she
thinks of calling someone,
one of the guys named J.P breaks the back door and
lets the other two in. J.P seems to be the leader,
while his brother Vance and friend Perry are his
accomplices. The robbers are under the impression
that Anna is at the funeral but the kettle makes
a noise and makes her presence evident.
She quickly runs upstairs while the guys start
looking for her all around the house. Perry
finds her hiding in the bedroom, making her
run downstairs. Before he catches up to her,
Anna gets to the front door. She can
easily run outside and save her life but
she freezes because of her anxiety.
J.P carefully closes the door and asks
her why she didn’t escape. She also had
a chance to call the police when she was
hiding upstairs but she didn’t. The guys think
it is strange but all they care about is the
money she is hiding somewhere in the house.
J.P and his brother Vance continue looking for
the money while Perry keeps an eye on Anna. She
tells him about her anxiety and how she hasn’t
stepped out of the house for over a decade. Perry
is fascinated by her and wants to check if she is
telling the truth for his entertainment.
He forcefully pulls her outside,
making her pass out. When J.P picks her up to
help her, Anna wets herself. Vance is asked
to take her to her room and get her cleaned as
the other two search for the bag of money.
They ultimately find a basement with
two doors without handles. The doors
surely lead somewhere but are impossible to
open. It is clear that either Conrad or Anna
wanted to keep these rooms a secret.
Meanwhile, Vance is still trying to get
Anna to change. He is the weakest link
among the three and is not willing to
hurt someone for money. Anna also notices
this and tries to convince him to help her.
She manages to convince him to some extent but
he eventually realizes what she is doing.
In a fit of rage, he forcefully tries to make her
change but is stopped when the delivery guy Dan
arrives. He was at Conrad’s funeral and has come
to check up on Anna because she wasn’t there.
Anna is thankful that she
finally has someone to help her,
until Dan calls Vance by his name, revealing
that they are friends. She realizes that Dan
is also with the robbers and loses her mind.
She runs downstairs and hides somewhere away
from the robbers. J.P and Perry get to Dan
and knock him out, revealing that he is,
in fact, not a part of their group.
After a few minutes of searching for Anna,
Perry loses patience and threatens to
kill Anna’s pet bird if she doesn’t
show herself. Anna remains hidden causing
Perry to hammer the poor bird to death.
By now, Dan has woken up but J.P ties
his hands and pushes him onto the couch.
While the robbers are busy with him, Anna runs
to the bathroom but makes noise while doing so.
Vance is about to get her when Anna stabs
his neck, killing him on the spot.
The other two are still with Dan but
the strange silence makes them believe
something is wrong. They ask Vance to
say something only to hear the sound
of Anna dragging his body to the basement.
Soon, they locate the blood stains on the floor
and follow them to find Vance’s dead body. J.P
holds his brother and cries, promising to avenge
his death. The mission turns into much more
than just a robbery for the surviving duo.
Just then, Perry notices Anna behind a door
but she locks it before he gets in. After that,
she runs into her room and brings out
the key she was playing with at the
beginning of the film. The key is then used
to open a console that consists of a lever.
Upon pulling it, the stairs to the basement
retract, trapping Perry and J.P inside.
Anna checks on them to make sure that they cannot
come outside. Some time passes and the robbers try
to break the doors in the basement to get out
but it has been made to withhold any force.
Outside, Dan reveals that he is friends with
Vance and had told him about the money yesterday.
He feels awful for doing so because he didn’t
know it would lead robbers into her house.
Anna still refuses to untie his hands and
asks him about Conrad’s funeral. He tells
her how it went and inquires about what Conrad
would have done in a situation like this.
Anna thinks about it for a while before breaking
his finger and bringing him to the basement door.
Since the stairs are missing, he is standing
at the edge of the wall. Anna asks him to prove
his innocence by jumping into the basement
and when he refuses, she pushes him herself.
Dan cries in pain, holding his dislocated knee.
Anna then enters a hidden cabinet that shows her
live footage of the basement. A while later, she
comes to check up on them and J.P tortures Dan
in hopes that she feels sympathetic.
Anna tells them to use the first aid kit
that is inside one of the two locked rooms with no
door handles. This time, J.P can open one of the
doors because Anna has changed the settings from
upstairs. However, as soon as he enters the room,
she presses a button and he is locked inside. J.P
finds it extremely strange because the room looks
identical to the one he had seen upstairs.
In the meantime, Perry tries to break the second
door and is successful after many tries. He finds
a freezer and opens it to see dead bodies inside.
Shocked to the core, Perry runs outside and comes
face to face with Anna. Now that he has seen
things that he shouldn’t have, she cannot let him
live. She hits him with a hammer on his head.
The man is about to strangle her to death
before he loses too much blood and dies.
Outside, Dan manages to move into the
second room and sees the dead bodies,
realizing that something is very wrong.
At the same time, Charlotte comes to check
up on Anna because she hasn’t been picking up her
calls. Anna pretends like everything is fine and
makes up an excuse for the noise coming from the
basement. Charlotte doesn’t think much of it and
leaves after making sure Anna is okay.
After her departure, Anna goes to the basement
and finds Dan by the freezer. She puts him inside
a cupboard which leads him into the room where J.P
is locked. The room has a one-way mirror
that she uses to keep an eye on them.
J.P figures this out and tries to break it but
Anna informs him that the glass is bulletproof.
She then makes him wear a shirt out of
a cupboard. It turns out that Conrad and
Anna used to drug men and lock them inside
this room. Then, Conrad joined the victims
through the cupboard and tortured them
while Anna watched through the mirror.
J.P wants to know the reason they replicated
the room and whose shirt he is wearing. It
is then revealed that Anna’s father used to
assault her sexually even when she was a child.
Then one day, Conrad strangled their father
to death and became her hero. Ever since then,
they have been luring registered sexual
predators into the house and killing them.
Anna believes that they did the right
thing because offenders deserved the
punishment but according to J.P, both
she and her brother are psychopaths.
They got high from killing their father and
wanted to relive the moment again and again.
Anna loses her mind at the accusations
and provides Dan with a gun to kill J.P.
She wants him to pay for his deeds and
thinks she is helping him by doing so.
J.P pushes Dan aside and gets a hold of the gun.
He gets ready to kill Dan but Anna stops him,
urging him to commit the unthinkable.
She blames him for his brother’s death and
declares that death is the only way to his
salvation. Initially, J.P seems to be giving
in to her demands but he comes back to his
senses and points the gun at Dan again.
Seconds before he is shot, Anna opens the
door and lets them out. J.P helps Dan get
outside of the house but he isn’t ready to
run away yet. He looks at Vance’s dead body,
filled with rage and will to take revenge.
Dan tries to convince him to let everything go
but is instead punched in the face.
J.P goes back in and starts pouring
gasoline around the house. Anna
brings him the bag full of money,
hoping to send him away with it but he refuses to
take it and attacks her. In an ensuing struggle,
Anna manages to run upstairs but J.P
catches her and claims that he has an idea.
He wants her to relive the bad memories she
shared with her father by assaulting her.
The fact that he is wearing her father’s
shirt makes it even worse for Anna.
Just then, Dan comes into the room and Anna
takes advantage of the distraction to shoot J.P
dead. Silence prevails as both Dan and Anna
look at the dead body. They come downstairs
and Dan leaves without saying a word.
Anna stays in the living room for about an
hour before she finally decides to step out of
the house. At last, she has left her fear of
detachment behind and can exist outside
of the house without hyperventilating.
In the final scene, she lights the house on
fire and walks away.
