The Silence Devours

THE SILENCE DEVOURS is exploration of grief with madness, monsters, and heart. People think of grief as a process, something you can “get through.” To me, grief is a monster— A horrible thing that wraps itself around your throat, and chokes out the light. You can fight it, you can embrace it, or you can run from it. Stave off the pain of it through distraction, filling your head with noise. In THE SILENCE DEVOURS, main character Maya Reed is doing just that; Running from the quiet and the darkness it brings, desperate to keep the memories from eating her alive... But this is exactly what this monster relies on. It slithers in the blind spots of your mind. ACT I – The Return Chronically curious true crime podcaster, MAYA REED, must return to her rural hometown of Grizzly Glen, Maine, to check on her unwell mother. On the drive in, Maya has a chilling encounter with a DISHEVELED MAN who claims he’s been invisible for months. Disturbed but intrigued, Maya arrives in town and reunites with her emotionally distant MOM—rekindling long-buried tensions tied to the disappearance of Maya’s father. ACT II – The Unseen Driven by gnawing suspicion, Maya begins investigating her father’s case, quickly linking his disappearance to the strange man she saw. Chasing clues leads Maya through eerily abandoned neighborhoods. The town she grew up in has withered away, but no one speaks of The Missing. As Maya digs deeper, reality starts to unravel. She meets OPHELIA DEGARE, an elderly woman that never forgets, finding she and Ophelia have something in common; They know someone that never was... Maya’s brother, DORIAN, has also been “erased”— Not just from their mother’s sight, but even her memories. Now, he’s a ghost of sorts, working on a cure to be seen again. Maya realizes an insidious force is at work. It doesn’t just destroy you, it devours every sign of you. ACT III – The Reveal Maya confronts the horrifying truth: the town’s silence is not just denial—it’s a trance. There’s a horrible unseen predator, lurking in plain sight. A supernatural force feeding on families, and erasing the very memory of them, forcing survivors to “fill in the blanks”. To stop this dreadful curse, Maya must face the trauma she’s buried. In a race against time and perception, Maya must finish was her Devoured Father started—before she, too, becomes one of the Missing. THE SILENCE DEVOURS blends the eerie isolation of ANTLERS with the head-spinning family horror of THE BLOCK ISLAND SOUND culminating in a twisty, cathartic crescendo, written to appeal to the masses. We’re all running from something... Politics, click-bait, doom-scrolling. The vestigial prey-fear makes us find enemies in the darkness— And in this story, we face our demons, head-on.