Faye, a teenage girl who constantly films the world around her, has learned to experience life through the safety of her camera. By recording everything, she can turn the present into something already past, making even frightening or painful moments easier to bear. When she encounters Zoya, a girl with a blood-red left hand who may be the subject of a prophecy foretelling the end of the world, Faye is initially drawn to her out of curiosity. But as the two grow closer through a series of playful, ordinary encounters, Faye begins to see Zoya as more than the mysterious figure the prophecy describes. When she reveals that the prophet in the infamous video was her own grandmother—and that she was the one who filmed it—Faye begins to understand how an image can detach a person from who they really are and turn them into something the world believes in. As Zoya becomes increasingly defined by the image of her red hand, Faye is forced to confront the consequences of her own way of seeing: she can no longer pretend that filming is simply a way of watching from a distance, especially when the person behind the camera is someone she has come to care about.