10x10 2018

A cunning man named Robert Lewis observes flower shop owner Cathy Noland as she opens her shop from a diner across the street. Later, Cathy delivers flowers to a waiter for his sick wife, Mia, while having lunch at the same diner. Seizing the moment, Lewis stalks her to the LA Fitness gym where she attends her yoga class. As Cathy engages in her practice, Robert receives a call from his housekeeper, Alondra, informing him that everything is prepared for that evening.

After her class, Cathy discusses with a fellow classmate about their yoga instructor, Casey, whom the classmate, Jen, finds particularly handsome. Just as Cathy exits the gym, Lewis makes his move. He springs out and attempts to suffocate her with a plastic bag, but Cathy manages to break free and scream, though her voice goes unheard by a nearby gentleman lost in his headphones. In a chilling escalation, he wraps duct tape around her mouth and binds her ankles and wrists, then retreats briefly to retrieve his vehicle. Once back, he hauls her into the trunk and speeds away.

In his car, a police cruiser pulls up alongside them at a stoplight. However, Lewis expertly evades detection and continues to his secluded abode. Upon arrival, the garage door unexpectedly malfunctions, only lifting halfway, prompting him to prop it open with a broomstick before driving in. He forcibly drags Cathy into the house, leaving traces of her blood-soaked footwear along the way.

Inside, he confines Cathy in a small room resembling a cellar but actually concealed on the first floor. While she struggles to escape, Lewis engages in preparing dinner and cleaning up the chaotic aftermath of the abduction. When he finally addresses her, he chillingly explains that her cries for help will be futile within the thick, soundproof walls of her prison. He takes off the duct tape and to his amusement, Cathy’s screams fill the air.

Lewis sets up a surveillance camera to record the audio from the cellar, then attempts to erase the evidence of his brutal crime. As Cathy devises a plan to break through the door and desperately calls for help through an air vent, the psychological tension builds. When he returns, armed, he informs Cathy that he will either leave her to scream or they can engage in a conversation. Despite her pleas for her life and offering him her savings, Lewis remains unmoved.

He recounts a haunting tale of a slaughterhouse bull sensing its imminent demise and escaping, which only raises the stakes of their confrontation. He demands to learn her identity, and when she reveals her name as Cathy Noland, he makes it clear that he desires the truth.

The ensuing psychological torment continues as Cathy manages to free her hands and launches an attack on him, unsuccessfully attempting to call for help until he shoots the phone. After another altercation, Cathy finds her chance to escape, but once again, Lewis outmaneuvers her. Their tragic game of cat and mouse escalates as his maid, Alondra, interrupts, and Lewis is compelled to clean up before she arrives.

Cathy endures physical and emotional torment, struggling to regain control. She uses her cunning to improve her chances of escape, even managing to transmit her childhood story to Robert, who demands to know more about her troubled past. As the intensity heightens, Lewis learns about her former life through a series of increasingly intrusive questions, revealing deep-rooted resentment and emotional scars.

Convincing him she is not the cold-blooded killer he believes her to be, she manipulates the narrative to extract sympathy. She describes her rise to being a nurse and how her patients have shared their lives’ moral failings with her, creating a nexus of trauma and moral reckoning in Lewis’s mind as he grows obsessed with understanding Cathy, or rather her real identity, which she eventually extracts under duress.

Natalie’s revelation about committing murders as payback for sins committed by her victims leads to a confrontation where she must defend herself against accusations of killing his wife. In a convoluted twist of fate, their destinies intertwine as Natalie blames Lewis for pushing her to take drastic actions to cleanse the world of supposed sinners. Their fight is physical and emotional as they wrestle with their identities amidst the shadows of betrayal and guilt.

As the tension culminates with a catastrophic clash leading to Alondra’s unexpected arrival with Lewis’s daughter Summer, Natalie takes the little girl hostage, declaring that everything that has occurred is Robert’s fault. The stakes have never been higher, and the fragility of life hangs in the balance as identities blur, and loyalties are tested.

In the chaos that follows, poignant revelations and explosive actions pave the way for a heart-stopping showdown. Cathy/Natalie’s transformation sparks a desperate race against time to save a life while seeking justice for her own. Finally, in an explosive climax, Lewis faces the consequences of his actions as the true horror of his reality comes crashing down, affirming his love for his daughter amidst the ruins of their harrowing experience.