A recurrent, unidentifiable noise in her apartment. A memo to her boss
that's replaced by obscene insults. Amanda--a successful architect in a
happy marriage--finds her life going off kilter by degrees. She starts
smoking again, and one night for no reason, without even the knowledge
that she's doing it, she burns her husband with a cigarette. At night
she dreams of a beautiful woman with pointed teeth on the shore of a
blood-red sea.
The new voice in Amanda's head, the one that tells her to steal things
and talk to strange men in bars, is strange and frightening, and Amanda
struggles to wrest back control of her life. A book on demon possession
suggests that the figure on the shore could be the demon Naamah, known
to scholars of the Kabbalah as the second wife of Adam, who stole into
his dreams and tricked him into fathering her child. Whatever the case,
as the violence of her erratic behavior increases, Amanda knows that she
must act to put her life right, or see it destroyed.