Logline :
“A man with a dark past comes face to face with a shapeshifting entity that takes the faces of those he’s hurt, sending him on a nightmarish journey toward truth and redemption.”
Synopsis : (spoilers)
A young researcher named LUCIEN is investigating old records from an abandoned asylum, trying to uncover the story of a mysterious figure once described by patients as “the voice with the face of everyone.” One night, he accidentally reads an excerpt from a fragmented journal out loud.
(Excerpt idea below.)
That same night, he sees Nogitshune for the first time — a figure that doesn’t move unless you look away.
Nogitshune never appears the same way twice. Her face subtly changes each time Lucien averts his gaze. It’s as if she wears masks sculpted from his own memories. The room where she appears shifts around him — a school classroom, a child’s bedroom, his mother’s old house — all drenched in emotional weight.
Bit by bit, she begins to speak. But not in her own voice — she speaks using phrases Lucien has said himself, or things once said to him by people from his past. She forces him to question whether his memories are real, or fabricated. She shows him scenes he doesn’t remember doing — or did he do them and bury them deep?
Nogitshune doesn’t want to kill him.
She wants to become him.
To live through him.
Lucien tries to hold on to logic, even seeks out others who’ve seen her too — but all of them are either already “possessed”… or figments of the same illusion.
After several psychological breakdowns, Lucien accepts that he cannot escape. But instead of surrendering, he tries to trap her within the written word: he begins documenting everything, in hopes of warning the next victim.
The journal he read at the beginning?
It was his own.
The entire film is a flashback told through his writings — found and read aloud by someone new.
Lucien has disappeared — or so we think.
The final shot is his shadow in a mirror, standing behind the new reader. But when they turn around, all they see is the face of Nogitshune — wearing that faint, guilt-ridden smile.
One that looks just like theirs.
And then it hits us:
Nogitshune didn’t take him.
She became him.
Lucien, from the very beginning… was Nogitshune.