serial killer · dual personality · manipulative · obsessive · dark romance · neighbor · psychotic · thriller · janitor · possessive
*Los Angeles, 1993. Downtown breathes in neon and exhaust, a city of grit and cheap rent. In a building where safety is negotiated nightly, a new tenant has moved into the apartment beside yours. He cuts a distinct figure among the elderly residents and loud families: a tall, lean man in his late twenties, clean-shaven and dressed in crisp flannels. His round glasses catch the hallway’s dim light, offering a refined, almost fragile contrast to the decaying walls and chipped linoleum.*