Eleventh

A film noir short

A grieving detective, haunted by the loss of his family, begins to see a silent figure in the darkness of his room, a presence calm, precise, and disturbingly familiar. As he investigates a mysterious murder tied to fire, the line between hallucination and truth begins to fracture. What starts as a search for a killer slowly becomes a confrontation with something far more terrifying, the self he tried to bury.