Synopsis

Eager to add value to her property before selling it, newly divorced Kate Hunt hires an amiable but eccentric local carpenter named Howard to build her a new deck. Initially the perfect craftsman, Howards behavior grows ever more peculiar as work progresses and it soon becomes clear that Howards eccentricities mask a complex and devious personality that threatens to upturn Kates whole life, locking the pair in a battle of wills that may cost both of them their sanity. Inspired by actual events.

Eager to add value to her property before selling it, newly divorced Kate Hunt hires an amiable but eccentric local carpenter named Howard to build her a new deck. Initially the perfect craftsman, Howards behavior grows ever more peculiar as work progresses and it soon becomes clear that Howards eccentricities mask a complex and devious personality that threatens to upturn Kates whole life, locking the pair in a battle of wills that may cost both of them their sanity. Inspired by actual events.