Talk to Me

Mia is unmoored by the ambiguous death of her mother two years earlier — officially a suicide, though Mia cannot accept it. She attends a party with her best friend Jade and Jade's younger brother Riley where a ceramic embalmed hand is being passed around: hold it and say talk to me to allow a spirit to see you, say I let you in to allow possession for 90 seconds — then you must release before the spirit takes hold permanently. The rush is addictive. When Riley takes the hand, the spirit of Mia's mother appears to him — and Mia, desperate for contact, encourages him to hold on longer than he should. The spirit throws Riley down a staircase; he suffers severe brain damage and falls into a coma. Riley's parents plan to take him off life support. Mia begins hallucinating her mother's face over the faces of everyone around her, and the visions urge her to let Riley die so she can join her mother. She acts on them — sabotaging attempts to keep Riley alive, believing she is helping him. A final session with the hand reveals the truth Mia has suppressed: she was driving the night her mother died. The spirits have been exploiting her guilt all along. Mia uses the hand one final time, is possessed, wanders into traffic, and dies. The hand passes to a new group.