An unexpected odyssey unfolds after a filmmaker's brother begins receiving unusually advanced paintings from a supposedly eight-year-old girl. Following the journey of a young New York photographer (Nev Schulman), as he begins an online relationship with a Michigan family, it soon veers into strange and suspenseful territory as he discovers that the family is not what it appears to be.
When a 20-something New York City photographer is contacted on MySpace by an 8-year-old painting prodigy from rural Michigan, he becomes deeply enmeshed in her life. He starts to correspond with her family and ends up having a cyber-romance with her older sister. That is, until a crack appears in her older sister's story.