Trama

A woman and her fiancé move to the suburbs, after being robbed. She becomes friendly with the mysterious man next door, who she begins to suspect is hiding a dangerous secret.

Jessica and her fiancé Evan just moved from the city into their dream home on a quiet suburban street. Soon after, Jessica catches her seemingly friendly new neighbor, Simon, in a strange lie and can't let her suspicions rest. The danger escalates when Simon lures her inside his home and imprisons Jessica in his secret bunker, meticulously decorated in the idealized style of the 1950's. Here she meets Robin, a woman who's been held captive by Simon for several years and brainwashed into living as his faithful companion - a fate that is now set for Jessica unless she can somehow find a way to escape from Simon's time-warped prison.

Following their New York City apartment being burglarized, they walking in on the burglar in the process and being subsequently further robbed by him, engaged couple Jessica and Evan Crowder buy a house they can barely afford and move to the suburbs on Jessica's want, solely in her not feeling safe in the city anymore. Evan hates everything about their new situation - having to make an arduous commute to the city to a job he does not like solely to pay only part of the hefty mortgage - but grins and bears it in his love for Jess. The strains of their new situation do manifest themselves, such as Evan snapping at Jess, a freelance graphic designer, for chatting online all day with Oscar Garrett, one in her network of amateur detective friends, instead of working on one of her paid contracts or looking for further clients which would go toward supporting that large mortgage. The one bright spot for Evan is their new friendship with their next door neighbor, Simon, who Evan at least finds interesting and nice. Simon, a Men's Studies college lecturer, looks like he could have stepped straight out of the early 1960s, from the way he dresses, to the vintage car he drives, to his seeming beliefs shaped by his parents having taken on the stereotypical mother and father roles around the house when he was growing up. Jess, however, believes that Simon's story doesn't quite add up. The day after arguably the biggest of Jess and Evan's fights about their life since moving, Jess disappears without a trace and without a word. Beyond her leaving being uncharacteristic even in the worst of their times and she having left her cell phone behind, most of the evidence points to Jess probably leaving due to dissatisfaction with their relationship. What Evan does not know is that Simon has kidnapped Jess, he keeping her in a heavily fortified, surveilled and soundproofed dungeon in his basement which is made to look like a house from the era he epitomizes. Simon's goal is to have Jess become the latest of his human Stepford wives, there being another woman, Robin Simmons, already in the basement, she who has been there for years and she not having been the first. Simon has and will kill to protect this his perfect life, and warns Jess that if she kills him, she and Robin will die along with him as there is no way for them to escape. As Evan, Oscar, and Evan and Jess' NYPD constable friend Tyler Haines follow up on the evidence to find out what did happen to Jess, Jess tries to work her way out of the dungeon without getting beaten or killed by Simon. She may find that Robin may be just as big an obstacle, Robin who has been so terrorized over the years truly to become that subservient human Stepford wife. Or is Jess' fate to turn into another Stepford wife like Robin?—Huggo

Jessica and her husband Evan to the suburbs after being robbed in the city. They meet their neighbor and apparently mild-mannered professor named Simon who isn't too thrilled that Evan does most of the cooking and Jessica has a better job. Jessica senses something is off about Simon, particularly after he becomes angry describing how his ex-girlfriend cheated on him,and nostalgic remembering how his old- fashioned mother used to cook and run the kitchen.Evan sees Jessica's worries as discontent over their living circumstances,and him paying most of the mortgage on the house by working in a job he hates.Jessica co fired in her internet geek buddy that something is off with Simon. She is lowered to Simon's house,sees he has surveillance cameras everywhere,and is taken prisoner by the deranged Simon. Simon has another prisoner,a former student of his named Robin,who is so afflicted with Stockholm syndrome she foils Jessica's attempt to waylay and capture Simon and escape,saying he'll hurt Jess or make Robin kill her to show loyalty,like he did with the last woman he captured. Simon keeps in prisoner of soundproof basement in rooms made up to look like a house from the 1950s. He Gibbs the aspiring writer Jessica typewriter to write with. The jealous Robin later tries to get Simon to kill Jessica,but he kills her instead and then he kills the cop friend of Jess' husband who was tipped off by her computer buddy and comes looking for her.Simin ours the cop's body in an alley Finally, after Jessica's internet friend tips Evan off to Simon's nature and the fact that the cop is dead,and several other women Simon has known have gone missing, Evan goes to Simon's house looking for Jessica. Jessica has cooked her special rhubarb pie so he'll smell it, and Simon leaves pie prints on the pass code buttons,so she's able to get free and she and her fiancee overpower Simon. Simon goes to prison and Jessica gives him the book she wrote about her experience and says he never broke her. Now it is his fate to be a prisoner for the rest of his life. After she leaves,Simon kisses the lips of her picture on the cover of the book.