Julia is a full-time housewife whose husband Francis is going to Romania because of her work, so she and her husband moved from the United States to Romania to live. When she first arrived in a foreign country, Julia felt very unaccustomed. On the first night of her new home, she lay in bed and couldn't fall asleep. So she got up and walked to the window, looked at the scenery outside the window, and passed the time. Suddenly, she noticed a strange man standing in front of the window staring at it in the opposite building. At first, Julia didn't care too much, thinking that the other party couldn't sleep in the middle of the night, and got up and stood in front of the window in a daze. However, the next night, Julia found the man standing in the same place again, his eyes staring straight at it. At this moment, Julia suddenly felt a chill, and her heart was full of fear. She guessed that the other party was a voyeur who was spying on herself. So she immediately told her husband Francis about it. Francis immediately looked in the direction his wife pointed out, but he found nothing unusual. He thought it was just a hallucination that his wife had developed anxiety when she had just moved to this strange place. Later, to ease Julia's nervousness, Francis accompanied her out for a walk. On the way home, the two saw a police car parked under a nearby apartment building, as if it had been a murder.
The next morning, while watching the TV news, Julia noticed that the news was reporting the murder that had happened the night before. A beautiful young girl was killed by a serial killer suspected of being known as a "spider". After Francis goes to work, Julia goes online to find information about the Spider. Through these news descriptions, she found that the serial killer seemed to be a psychopath who was keen on revenge on society, and he liked to kill people by slitting his throat, and sometimes he cruelly cut off the victim's head. According to the police report records, so far, 4 young girls have been brutally killed. However, until now, the police have not solved the case, and the serial killer continues to go unpunished. A survivor who survived by chance said in an interview with the media that the serial killer put a plastic bag around her head and then went to slit her throat. Afterward, the killer stood indifferently and watched as she kept struggling until she lost too much blood and became unconscious. However, the girl had a big life, and after the doctor's best efforts to rescue her, she recovered a life. The survivor girl also revealed an important piece of information, that in the days before the killer's murder, she had sensed that someone had been spying on her. She guessed that the killer might have enjoyed the thrill of catching his prey. After watching this interview, Julia was suddenly panicked, so she decided to go to the cinema to watch a movie and relax. However, not long after the film opens, Julia notices a man sitting behind her, and she immediately feels the same feeling of being watched, exactly the same as when she was at home. Frightened that she didn't finish watching the movie, she hurried out of the movie theater. Then she went into a hypermarket to shop, and unexpectedly, the man sitting behind her in the movie theater reappeared and followed her. No matter where Julia went, the mysterious man would appear near her. Julia became increasingly uneasy, so she escaped from the hypermarket again.
In the evening, Julia told her husband Francis about what had happened during the day. Francis also began to worry, and then he took his wife to the store and asked the staff for help in reviewing the daytime surveillance. After watching the surveillance footage, Francis and the store staff agreed that Julia had thought too much. Because in the surveillance video, it was Julia who first started staring at the man, and then the man looked back at Julia a few times. Julia didn't know how to explain, but just in case, she pointed her phone at the screen and took a picture of the man. In the days that followed, Julia hid in her home and closed the curtains in the house. She hid behind curtains all day, watching people coming in and out of the building opposite. She wanted to make sure that the mysterious man she met in the supermarket lived in the building opposite. However, Julia observed for several days and found nothing unusual.
One night, Francis was working late at work at the company. Julia, who was alone at home, suddenly heard a sharp knock at the door, and she cautiously looked out through the cat's eye, and it turned out to be the landlady. So she carefully opened the door. The landlady spoke to her a lot, but Julia could not understand the Landlady's Romanian language at all. At this time, irina, the female neighbor in the next room, happened to be coming home from work, and through her translator, Julia figured out that the landlady was looking for her lost pet cat. She was asking Julia if she had ever seen her pet cat. After learning that Julia had not met, the landlady left with her own words. Irina saw Julia's frightened look on her face, so she invited Julia to her room for a drink, and Julia gladly agreed. While the two women were chatting, Julia told Irina about her possible recent surveillance, and Irina comforted Julia and told her not to be afraid, but to protect herself. She also told Julia that she had bought a pistol and kept it in the drawer of the coffee table in the living room to prevent uninvited guests from breaking in. After talking to Irina, Julia was in a much better mood, and when she got home, she opened the curtains, only to find the man in the opposite building standing in front of the window again, looking at it. In order to test the other party, Julia had the courage to raise her hand and wave at the other party. Unexpectedly, the other party also waved to the place, as if to greet Julia. At this point, Julia finally confirmed that the other party was spying on her.
This is the first part of the plot of the American suspense horror movie "The Watcher" released in 2022, and it is not yet finished.
