Airam then seduces Sean, and the two begin an intense relationship. Maria asks again who she is, but Airam only replies, "You know me". In the bathroom that evening, Maria, frantic, begs to switch again, but Airam reiterates that Lily's death was an accident and that ultimately, Maria wanted Lily out of their lives. Airam chases Lily across the ice, and Lily falls into the pavement, fatally crushing her skull. After secretly practicing figure skating alone, Airam has another lesson with Lily, who soon becomes intimidated by the way Airam is acting. She tells Maria that all of them must answer for their sins.Īiram then lures Mark to the shower and breaks his knee. Maria, now stuck in the mirror, is appalled by Airam's behavior, but Airam insists she is only being honest, and that Maria needs to trust her. She then arranges for Amy to run into her husband's mistress as a way of forcing her to acknowledge Dan's affairs and their superficial marriage. Her mother Amy has a nightmare about giving birth.Īt school, Airam is visibly more confident than Maria, even standing up to Mark. Their palms and lips touch, allowing them to switch places. Finally, she is humiliated and physically assaulted by her bully Mark at the prom.ĭevastated, Maria goes into the bathroom to find Airam. Airam again gives her comfort and encouragement. Lily then takes her for a skating lesson for the upcoming on-ice winter prom, but after Maria slips and is unable to get back up, Lily simply taunts her, before abandoning her on the ice. Her mother Amy senses that something is wrong with Maria, but is repeatedly shut down by her husband. Crushed, she begins to find solace in Airam's presence and support that make her confront her subconscious thoughts and inner feelings. Maria asks who she is, and Airam simply says she has "always been here".Ī series of tragedies then befall Maria: her father offers to give her an early birthday present when she arrives at her father's office the next day to receive her gift as instructed, he tells her he's going to perform cosmetic surgery on her to fix her "flaws". Although physically identical, Airam is charismatic, assertive, and more confident than Maria. After dreaming of her own birth, Maria's reflection begins talking to her, calling herself Airam, and telling Maria she can take her sadness away. Shaken, she attempts to discuss it with her parents the following morning however, they brush her off and send her to school. Afterwards in the bathroom, her reflection begins to move on its own, terrifying Maria. Maria accidentally discovers a sonogram of a pair of twins. At home, Maria frequently suppresses her emotions with her parents: her distant father Dan ( Jason Isaacs) is a philandering plastic surgeon and an obsessive perfectionist, and her mother Amy ( Mira Sorvino) suffers from depression and nightmares, and lives in denial about her husband's affairs with other women. Maria has only one friend, the unpleasant Lily ( Penelope Mitchell) she also harbours a secret crush on Lily's boyfriend, Sean ( Harrison Gilbertson). 17-year-old Maria Brennan ( India Eisley) is a timid social outcast at her high school, where she is shunned by her peers and bullied by her schoolmate Mark (John C.
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