Sarah Fields-Kindle

In a small southern town, Grace Williams, a local teenager, goes missing.Reverend Elijah Harper attempts to comfort the people of his town giving a reassuring sermon on how to deal with grief and uncertainty, but his dual nature begins to unfold through a flashback revealing his disturbing secret.

Three middle school kids suspect their bus driver neighbor is behind a string of child disappearances. As they investigate, they uncover dark rituals and a sinister force hiding in plain sight—right next door.

In a community haunted by domestic strife and inter-community violence, a young Black man finds himself stalked by a sinister Apparition—an embodiment of generational trauma and suppressed identity. Battling to preserve his true sense of self against the crushing weight of societal expectations, he’s drawn into a spiraling psychological struggle where reality and nightmare blur. The film confronts the mental health toll of normalized violence and forces a reckoning with the unseen scars passed from one generation to the next.