Containment

Marty Byrde survives on control. Predictability keeps him alive, and attachment is a liability he cannot afford.

She comes to the Ozarks to disappear-running from a past that taught her the wrong lessons about power, safety, and desire. A quiet bar becomes her refuge. Marty becomes the variable she never meant to notice.

He sees the cracks immediately. The flinches, the tells, the way she mistakes danger for attention. He knows better than to intervene. Knows better than to want.

But when she asks the wrong questions and draws the attention of the wrong men, restraint stops being an option.

What begins as observation turns into protection. What should be distance becomes something far more dangerous: connection.

Set in the shadows of Ozark's criminal underworld, this is a slow-burn, psychological descent into control, trauma, and the cost of being seen-by someone who understands exactly how much that visibility can destroy you.