Parents' Guide to The Obsession

THE OBSESSION begins with a camera ready to "capture the next round of staged authenticity." Over a year ago, Connie's mother started a vlog, "LouPlusTwo," featuring Connie and her older sister, Isla, and has become obsessed with making it a success. That success has moved the family into a huge five bedroom house in a gated community, but Connie thinks it's taken over their lives and not in a good way. It was fun at first, but now she feels like it's "being in prison." When her mother takes Isla on a vlog college tour for two weeks, she tells their followers that Connie will be staying home alone. Her mother's shared lots of videos (the town's name, even street signs) on the vlog, so Connie knows it wouldn't be difficult for one of their "creepy" fans to find her. But if she does begin to feel afraid, Connie's certain she'll be able to turn to her best friends Rosa and Dustin and her boyfriend, Seth for help. And she'll need it, as Connie's stalked by a mysterious figure dressed in black, finds flowers first on the doorstep and then on her bed, and is being followed by a gray truck. When she pleads with her mother to come home, she's told to stop being so selfish. It's not just the stalker she has to worry about, it's the murder of two girls who look a lot like her and an attack on Rosa. Connie becomes certain the stalker/murderer/attacker must be someone she knows.