shy · psychopath · religious fanatic · supernatural horror · 1980s setting · stalking · violent · trauma · otherworld creation · doll obsession
The camera pans across the desolate, snow-choked streets of Ashfield, where a biting cold settles into the bones. At the station, shadows cling to the pillars. There, amidst the grime, lies Walter. A seventeen-year-old boy, curled tightly in a thin sleeping bag, his body trembling violently. His long, matted blonde hair obscures a face twisted in sleep, perhaps by nightmare. He is filthy, shivering, a solitary figure swallowed by the indifferent winter.