As his editor urges him to send in an article, Adam receives mysterious anonymous messages and is confronted by his former stalkers, who don't recognize him. His mother's death, meanwhile, arouses guilt in him that he dares not face. Recalling his friendship with Axel Challe, he finds the hiding place the latter had revealed to him.

Axel and Adam have arranged to meet. But their reunion is disrupted by the arrival of journalist Janine Tutor, who has been stalking Adam since his arrival. When the local newspaper reveals her true identity, Adam is once again beaten up. As a film crew sets up at his home for a series of location scouts, he begins to doubt the reality of all these events.