Synopsis

A funeral… A man in a car watches… he has a gun… The police approach..

Karen, a 40 year old radio psychologist is volunteering at the downtown Fort Worth, Texas food bank. A strange homeless man known as "Keyman" spots her and begins to stalk her.

Paranoia exhibits itself in different forms to another homeless man, Popeye. Keyman uses Popeye to forage for keys. Popeye hangs out with a couple of other homeless people who make up his street family.

The Keyman stalks Karen to her house where he watches her. After she leaves the following morning he breaks in. He goes through each room examining her possessions intently he ends in the bedroom where he examines a photograph we cannot see.

On the way back to his squatters hole, Keyman is mugged and left for dead. He crawls back to his "abandonment" later that night.

Karen is concerned because someone was in her house. She tries to find out who. After questioning Popeye, she hears about Keyman, but Popeye tells her he’s dead now.

Karen thinks she knows who was stalking her but that he might be dead. We learn the stalker might have been a friend or relative. Karen visits the old factory where the Keyman was reported to have had a night time janitor job. The foreman informs Karen that Keyman has not been in in several days.

A bad storm blows in as Karen gets ready for the evening food bank shift. As the rain comes down in sheets, she talks to Popeye. While casually gazing out at the rain, Keyman’s face appears for a moment in the window and then moves on. Karen recognizes him as her ex-husband Chris. She goes out into the storm after him.

Yelling for Chris only draws attention to herself and a couple of gang members decide to make the most of this woman who has run out into their turf. The attack is halted by the Keyman who kills the leader while the other one flees. About that time, the people running the food bank come upon the scene. Keyman is nowhere to be seen.

Karen, bruised and battered, wants to find Chris. She has to tell him she’s sorry.

Keyman, in his moment of truth faces the sunlight he has tried so hard to avoid. We go back in time to that fateful day before the funeral.

Chris Myers is on his way to work. His little five month old Joshua is asleep in the car seat in the back. On the mobile phone, Chris acknowledges that this may be his last day – that he might get fired.

As Chris is packing up his office later that afternoon, we hear the radio talking about another record heatwave for the Dallas-Ft Worth area. He unplugs the radio and puts it in his box. The phone rings.. it is his wife Karen. She is at the daycare to pick up Joshua but they are telling her he never arrived…. Chris’s knees start to give out. He drops the phone…. He runs out the building to his car…. He drops his keys trying to get it open. When he finally does.. it is too late. An unmoving little hand is gripping a set of infant keys.

Keyman yells at the sunlight to take him. Karen confesses she has never been able to forgive him. She must find him.

Keyman cuts his hair and puts on some nice clothes. He holds the photograph near him. It is a picture of his son. He lights a candle one more time. As the flames begin to kick up, we dissolve to a montage of Chris holding and playing with his son.

In the smoke, Keyman comes to and hears a little girl crying out in the next room. He crawls to her and takes her toward the first floor window. As he is pushing her out, a blazing beam falls on him.

Karen arrives just as the firemen are quenching the last remaining embers of what used to be the abandoned building Keyman stayed in.

Later, she opens her mailbox to find a package…. It has the infant keys that had stayed on Chris’s keychain. She takes them to the cemetery where buried next to Joshua is his father, Chris Myers. She places the keys on his grave as we fade to black.

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