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Cynthia is plagued with visions of deaths of girls from her school -- including some who torment or shun her -- at the hands of a killer she can't see in the visions. When the girls start turning up dead in real life, Cynthia suspects her own abusive father is the killer - she knows he's been watching the girls with bad intent.Cynthia has never been able to tell anyone about her father's abuse, not even her well meaning but living-in-denial mother. Now she can't bring herself to tell anyone about her terrible visions -- not even when the girls start turning up missing. Then Cynthia falls for Adam, a geek rebel. Together, they discover the body of one of the victims, and the murder weapon - a knife just like one Cynthia's father owns.Attracted to her darkness, Adam agrees to help Cynthia find out if her father is the killer. After a harrowing encounter with Cynthia's father, Adam is a believer. He helps Cynthia break into a shed where her father keeps his hunting knives, to see if the one they found is missing. Inside, they discover an "alter" of photographs and stolen objects of the murdered girls.Adam calls the police. Facing arrest, Cynthia's dad kills himself, after failing in one last attempt to manipulate and control Cynthia.Afterward, Adam comforts Cynthia as she tries to pick up the pieces of her life. Cynthia sleeps with Adam for the first time, then has a vision of Adam's murder -- by the same killer whose face she could not quite make out in her previous visions. Adam's life depends on realizing in time that Cynthia is not who she appears to be, and that her visions are really part of her own extreme form of acting out.