In 2007, the co-producing/co-directing team of Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman began filming a documentary of Ariel’s younger brother Nev, a dance photographer, as he developed a Facebook friendship with a prepubescent art prodigy named Abby.
The story beging with Nev who is a photographer on August 13, 2007 one of his photos appeared in The New York Sun. Three months later he gets a drawing of one of his photographs in the post from a little girl called Abby.
Watching the film you start to question the story line and the events that take place.
This girl starts to get more and more in contact with Nev and soon the whole family becomes involved in this new found friendship... They communicate threw facebook and on the phone.
Nev becomes very friendly with Abbys sister Meg and a romance blossoms. Soon they are on the phone talking all the time and a relationship of a sort evolves. He becomes curious about her and he decides to visit her. On the trip he starts to notice little lies about her writing song ect, he start to question her.
They realise she lied about her living place. They drive to her mothers home (Abbys home), they find a lonely woman with a husband and 2 disabled children and Abby...
The story continues and we find out that there is no Meg and the pictures were fake, the person pretending to be Meg was actually the mother.
The film itself is an eye opener and makes you realise how the internet is not a safe place after all. Meeting people on the internet is dangerous and you never know who you could be talking to.
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