A man struggling with inner demons tries to abduct a young girl from a playground.

Jack, a middle aged man struggling with inner demons tries to abduct a young girl from a playground, but when a neighbor spies their interaction things get more complicated.

Children scare me. I always feel like danger looms over them-that at any moment something bad could happen and they’re defenseless. Anytime I see a little kid, they’re always about to run into the street or fall down. To me, it’s not that they’re helpless, it’s that they’re not equipped to battle the world yet.

I wanted to tell a story about a young girl that is slightly past that age, she is 12, and has the budding mental complexity of an adult, but the vulnerability and fragility of a child.

Like the fierceness of the world, Jack is the looming danger. Literally, he looms over Amanda and tries to lure her in, like a little kid running after a bouncing ball that heads towards traffic. It’s scary, but this scenario happens every single day. The question I wanted to pose is: What are you going to do about it? What can you do about it?