The woman wastes no time in finding out everything about that family: their names, professional occupations, and even the price they paid for the house, everything with the help of a search engine. The Russells – father, mother, and a teenage son – seem like the perfect family, the kind of family Anna herself used to be part of.

One day, she notices that a new family seems to be moving into the house across the way from hers. Through her house windows, Anna is able to surveil a few townhouses around the neighborhood. Anna also keeps a Nikon D550 camera, which she uses to keep an eye on her neighbors. She still talks to her husband and daughter on the phone and, unable to leave the house, she gets a little help from her basement tenant David, and occasional visits from her psychiatrist and physical therapist. But ever since she went through a mysterious accident, she lost everything and got mentally unstable, so she locked herself in isolation.

Unable to venture into the outside world, she spends most of her time day drinking lots of wine, watching old noir movies, playing online chess, popping pills, chatting in an online support group, recalling her happier days, and spying on her neighbors through the windows.Īnna used to have a happy life, a family, and a job as a psychologist. And now she has to dive deep into her memory to figure out what is real and where the danger comes from.Īnna Fox is a lonely New Yorker suffering from agoraphobia, a psychological condition in which she feels an extreme and irrational fear of being in outdoor spaces. But one day, Anna spots something she shouldn’t from her window, something that terrifies her. When a new family, the Russells, moves into the house next to Anna’s, the woman finds comfort in observing their daily lives. Anna has been locked inside her New York home for way too long: she faces a psychological condition that prevents her from leaving her safe space.

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