Beneath the Surface

13 year-old Ben Truman watched helplessly as his twin brother drowned - an accident his father blamed him for. Now, twenty-seven years later, Ben returns to the family cabin to scatter ashes of his estranged father on that same lake. Accompanied by his boyfriend, Noah, he arrives determined to put his past behind him. On a beautiful starry night, as Ben is about to propose, Noah receives an urgent call. His mother has fallen ill and he's needed back home. Left to face his memories alone Ben watches his father's ashes drift out on the lake, then listens to a message he left the night he died. As hateful words spew out, Ben tries to cut the message short and accidentally knocks the phone in the lake. Lunging for it he falls in. Once retrieved it won't turn on. Trudging home, dejected, the forest feels foreboding. Unbeknownst to Ben the lake, along with other U.S. waterways, is contaminated with a man-made pathogen that eats away the brain causing wild hallucinations. As hours slip away, with no contact to the outside world, time and place lose definition, the cabin grows sinister and Ben's increasingly fractured reality conjures the manifestation of his guilt - his dead brother - who comes out of Ben's mind with revenge in his water-logged heart.