No Safe Place

Erin thought Maple Court would be a fresh start - a quiet cul-de-sac where she could raise her daughter, Lila, far from the fractures of her past. The neighbors waved politely, the lawns gleamed with careful symmetry, and the streets seemed to promise the stability she had been chasing for years. For one fragile moment, it almost felt like safety. But safety is the first lie. Behind every closed door, the Court waits.
Smiles conceal ritual. Hospitality masks demand. And the price of belonging on Maple Court is simple, spoken in whispers and lived in silence: balance must be kept. One stays. One goes. Always. When Erin begins to sense the rituals closing around her daughter, she realizes that Maple Court isn't simply unfriendly - it is predatory. Neighbors watch her windows. Her home reshapes itself to fit their rules.
And every night, the circle draws tighter. The choice the Court offers is the same it has demanded for generations: surrender one, or lose both. Running is impossible. Hiding is temporary. Survival will mean defying the laws of the street itself - breaking the balance that keeps the Court alive. Erin and Lila are forced into a battle where the only weapons left are blood against smoke, scream against silence, mother and daughter against the cul-de-sac that calls itself home.
No Safe Place is a relentless descent into domestic horror, where the very idea of community becomes the trap. It's about the lies we accept in the name of belonging, the dangers that wear familiar faces, and the bond between parent and child when everything else demands to break it. Fans of The Babadook, Hereditary, and Paul Tremblay will recognize the creeping dread of No Safe Place - a story that begins on a perfect street and ends in a reckoning that will make you look at your neighbors, your home, and your silence in a way you never have before.