After shedding his household in a automotive accident and seeing his newest work bomb, well-known novelist, Kennedy Sait, turns into a recluse and turns to medication and alcohol to numb the ache he feels. Struggling to make it via day after day, Kennedy's life is circled after assembly his neighbor's new spouse, Patricia. Infatuated together with her, she turns into his "muse" and she or he not solely evokes him to create once more, however she additionally evokes him to stay once more. However his infatuation together with her, turns into a harmful obsession. And so he does not lose Patricia, he kidnaps her and retains her prisoner in his attic. Police comb the neighborhood, hoping to discover a hint of the lacking lady, by no means understanding that she is true beneath their noses the entire time. Patricia tries preserving a degree head and is at all times in search of a approach to escape, although she fears she could by no means break freed from her seize as Kennedy's grasp on actuality continues on a daunting downward spiral.