Martie Rhodes is a happily married, successful video games designer, and a compassionate woman who, twice a week, takes her agoraphobic friend, Carol Jenners, to therapy sessions; although each trip is a grim ordeal, it has also been a bonding experience that has brought the two friends even closer together.
Then one morning, Martie experiences an irrational fear of her own; a brief but disquieting terror of...her shadow. Other anxiety attacks quickly ensue, until Martie discovers she is afflicted with one of the rarest and most intriguing phobias known to psychology: autophobia, a fear of oneself. And her life changes suddenly, radically.
Martie's husband, Dusty, is a rock for her. He loves her profoundly, and he becomes desperate to understand the nature and cause of her autophobia. But as Dusty comes ever closer to the terrible truth, he himself begins to exhibit symptoms of a psychological disorder, even more unusual and frightening than that afflicting Martie...
