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XIA
By Stephanie Bertoni

GENRE: Horror
LOGLINE:

In a mansion surrounded by a lush forest teeming with wolves, an eccentric heiress finds herself trapped by the living, shifting walls that force her to confront painful memories, but as she tries to move on with her new life, a police investigation into her missing siblings threatens to unearth secrets long-buried, and new ones.

SYNOPSIS:

Though it is the year 1920 in the outside world, the past, the present, and the future overlap in

one opulent, turn-of-the-century mansion. Surrounded by a forest teeming with wolves and the

pulsating, shifting walls of her house, an eccentric heiress, Xia, finds herself perpetually

confronting the traumas of her past while battling a parade of family members trying to evict

her from the estate. Before the deceased patriarch of the family is even buried in the ground,

Xia’s handed an eviction notice and the feud begins—the looming wolves on the fringes even

joining the fray. Xia’s emotions and body take a toll as she counters every shady move and

every memory that assaults her, trying all along to create a new life with her loving husband

and adopted daughter. As siblings and relatives start disappearing one by one, a police

investigation reveals that some outsider—or maybe insider—may be motivated by the family’s

wealth, and two detectives vow to protect Xia and her family. But who are they protecting

them from? An unforeseen villain with a grudge against the rich, the wolves, the ominous

mansion, or is it the disquieting cracks in Xia’s psyche?

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