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A stage actress - who is hiding a deep trauma over the car accident that killed her mother - finds herself living a new nightmare when her fellow cast members are butchered by a glass-wielding killer.

A little girl named Cathy tries to keep her mother from making out with a man while driving one day, and she inadvertently causes her mother's death in the car crash. 16 years later, Cathy has changed her name to Helen and has become a psychotic actress. Things are going fine until horrible things starts to happened with the cast of her new play.—Ørnås

The film opens with a traumatic childhood flashback where young Cathy witnesses her mother's death in a car accident, an event that occurs while her mother is distracted during a romantic encounter. This formative tragedy shapes Cathy's psychological landscape and sets the stage for her adult struggles with intimacy and trust. Years later, Cathy has become an actress working in Australian theater, though she remains haunted by fragmented memories and nightmares related to her mother's death. She's cast in a new production alongside a diverse group of performers and crew members, including other actors, stagehands, and production staff who form the typical ensemble of potential victims that populate slasher films of this era. As rehearsals begin, Cathy struggles with her performance and her relationships with fellow cast members. Her psychological fragility becomes apparent through her interactions, though the script keeps her specific triggers and fears deliberately vague. The theatrical setting provides an appropriate backdrop for the drama to unfold, with the stage itself becoming both workplace and eventual killing ground. The murders begin methodically, with cast and crew members being stalked and killed by an unseen assailant who favors glass as a weapon of choice. The killer uses broken mirrors, shattered windows, and other glass implements to dispatch victims in increasingly brutal fashion. Each death is designed to maximize shock value, with close-ups of glass penetrating flesh and blood spattering across reflective surfaces. As the body count rises, paranoia spreads through the remaining survivors. Cathy finds herself at the center of the mystery, though whether as target or suspect remains unclear for much of the runtime. Her traumatic past and current psychological instability make her both sympathetic figure and potential red herring, as the script toys with the possibility that her fractured mental state might be connected to the killings. The investigation unfolds through a combination of police procedural elements and the survivors' own amateur detective work. Trust breaks down among the remaining cast members as everyone becomes suspect, and the theater transforms from creative sanctuary into claustrophobic trap. The killer continues to strike while remaining hidden in shadows, using the building's theatrical infrastructure - catwalks, dressing rooms, storage areas - to move unseen and claim new victims. In the film's climactic sequence, the killer's identity is finally revealed through a confrontation that brings Cathy face-to-face with the truth about both her mother's death and the current murders. The resolution attempts to tie together the psychological threads that have been loosely established throughout the narrative, though the connections feel forced rather than organically developed. The final act plays out across multiple levels of the theater, with chase sequences through backstage areas, across the stage itself, and into the audience seating. Glass continues to feature prominently in the violence, with mirrors and windows being weaponized in the climactic struggle. The killer's motivations are explained through dialogue that attempts to justify the murder spree while connecting it to Cathy's traumatic past. The film concludes with Cathy's survival and the killer's defeat, though the resolution feels more like narrative obligation than satisfying conclusion. The final moments attempt to provide psychological closure for Cathy's character arc while suggesting that her ordeal has somehow helped her process her childhood trauma, though this character development feels unearned given the superficial treatment of her psychological journey throughout the film.