A peek behind the curtain reveals a struggle between power, age, and complicity...
While her best friends are preparing for the most important summer of their lives with big plans and Sweet 16 parties, painfully shy Claire Payne joins the stage crew of the Spring Grove Players' summer musical. Although she struggles to make friends at first, when Don Preston takes her under his wing, her world starts to transform.
Despite being her father's age, Claire is illuminated by Don's charm, and blossoms as she falls in love with the beautiful world of ghost stories and love letters he creates for her. However, as Claire finds herself more and more isolated by her relationship with the charismatic man, strange incidents around the theater start to blur the lines between fantasy and reality.
Recalling the haunting manipulation of the classic film Gaslight, and the masterful portrayal of troubled adolescence in My Dark Vanessa, GHOSTLIGHT explores the traumatic effects that come with the violation of innocence.
"The writing is raw and delicate and captures the horror and the thrill of being 15 and singled out. [...] What I love most is the specific world Cait creates through careful details: the community theater, the cool backstage air, the cramped tech booth."
TRIGGER WARNING: Grooming, Disordered Eating