A Daughter's Nightmare

At the funeral for Dana's husband and Ariel's father (and veterinarian Cameron's brother), Adam Smith is lurking in the background. Adam has been trying to help his son, Ben, who has trouble sleeping and has been hearing voices.

Ariel returns to college, promising to visit Dana every weekend. At college, Ariel meets fellow student Ben. The weekend after they first meet, Ben and his father Adam offer Ariel a ride home. During the ride, Ariel explains that her mother is having a hard time coping with grief and loss so she is going to attend a grief group.

At group, Adam introduces himself to Dana, explaining how Ariel told him about this group, and that he lost his wife eight months ago.

Ariel and Ben start hanging out at school. He explains that Adam is a nurse and that he is the one that took care of Ben after he lost his ill mother when he was ten years old.

One afternoon, Adam approaches Dana's house with his dog and two cups of coffee. When he finds Ariel studying on the porch, he explains that he lives a couple of blocks away and that he came to check up on her mother. Ariel drinks from the cup of coffee that Adam brought for Dana. Dana returns and invites Adam in; while they talk, he explains Ben's psychological issues, and misleads Dana with a story about Ariel having trouble studying because she feels obligated to visit every weekend. Ariel suddenly feels sick and she asks her mother to drive her back to college.

Adam picks up Dana for a grief group meeting. En route, he explains that it is his deceased wife's birthday and convinces her to join him for dinner instead of going to group.

At the restaurant, while Adam keeps talking about his deceased wife Dana starts to feel a little bit off and she goes to the restroom, where she passes out.

In the morning, Dana wakes up in her own bedroom. Ariel calls her mother because she is worried because her phone was off all night. Adam arrives at the house with homemade breakfast. He explains that he got her home and put her to bed, then left.

Shortly after, Cameron comes to Dana's house to see how she is doing. He finds the homemade breakfast in the kitchen and eats it.

Later that night, Adam comes to Dana's house to make her wellness tea. While Dana is upstairs changing, Ariel calls home and Adam answers her call. When Dana comes back downstairs, Adam tells her that the call was a marketing company. Before he leaves, he tells Dana to drink the tea to get better, and is upset to hear that Cameron ate the breakfast.

Adam approaches Ariel at school and he tells her that he has two tickets for the Dixie Chicks concert that night, so that Ariel can take Dana out for a break. He offers to drop Dana off at the concert, which Ariel thanks him for.

Ariel goes to the concert; however, Dana does not arrive, and does not answer her phone. Ben shows up and tells Ariel that Adam was unable to pick her mother up because some crisis happened at work, and that Dana told Ben to use her ticket and for Ben and Ariel to have fun. Meanwhile, Dana was waiting for Ariel to come home so they can celebrate her birthday together. Adam goes to Dana's house with flowers. He acts shocked that Ariel did not make it home and he tells her that Ariel must have a lot of school work to do.

The next morning, Dana finds herself naked on her bed. She wakes up feeling lost and uncertain. Adam explains to her that they did nothing wrong the night before, though she argues that she does not remember what happened and that she feels like she was drugged.

A home cleaning service worker finds Cameron dead in his house.

Ariel and Dana are talking about Cameron's death when Dana suddenly collapses. Ariel hurries to call an ambulance, but Adam suddenly appears and tells Ariel that Dana does not need an ambulance. Dana explains that Adam was upstairs, that he is a nurse who knows what he is doing, and also tells Ariel to go back to school.

The next morning, Adam brings breakfast to Dana in bed. She asks him what has he done to her and why she can't walk. Adam ignores her questions and tells her that he had found a great place to stay in. He also writes a note for Ariel under Dana's name explaining that she is going away with Adam for a while.

When Ben's eye starts bleeding, Ariel takes him to the hospital. Tests reveal a large dose of ethambutol in his blood, explaining that it is an antibiotic to treat tuberculosis. Ben states that he is not taking ethambutol, and Ariel deduces that Adam must be drugging him, and Adam must be drugging Dana as well. She and Ben rush to Dana's house, then call the police when Dana is not there. The police see that Dana has left a note and say that there is nothing amiss.

Ariel and Ben call pharmacies in the region to ask about Adam, which leads to the address of the cottage that Adam took Dana to. Ariel looks for Dana while Ben tries to get the police. When Dana escapes, but Adam catches her. Ariel finds them, but Adam knocks Ariel down and starts choking her. Ariel manages to get the upper hand, knocks him to the ground and reaches Dana just as Ben arrives with the police. Ben denounces Adam, who is arrested for abducting Dana.

Ariel and Dana visit the graves of Cameron and Dana's husband, while Adam is convicted and sent to prison.

The story of this film takes place in the fictional town of "Ridgewood"; Ridgewood was also the setting of the Lifetime movies A Mother's Nightmare and A Wife's Nightmare.[3]

• Emily Osment as Ariel Morgan
• Gregg Sulkin as Ben Woods
• Paul Johansson as Adam Smith
• Victoria Pratt as Dana Morgan
• Richard Karn as Cameron "Cam" Morgan
• Jaden Rain as Brooks
• Eric Breker as Vic
• Gabriela Zimmerman as Maria
• Peter Benson as Dr. Logie
• Alex Zahara as Dr. Shwarzstein

Filming for the movie began in 2013 and it was filmed in Kelowna, Canada.

They filmed in the Okanagan area because of the California-like scenery and the lower costs.[2]

At the beginning of the film, Emily Osment sings the hymn "No Regrets" whose lyrics were written by the screenwriter Shelley Gillen with a music composed by Shane Harvey.

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