The 12 Days of Christine

Christine arrives home with Adam after meeting him at a New Year’s party, and they begin a fragile romance. The flat becomes the starting point for their evolving relationship as the year unfolds. The moment marks the first step toward a life they hope to build together.

Thirteen months later, Christine chats with Fung about her evolving relationship with Adam, while a card from Christine’s first boyfriend arrives and lingers. The note stirs memories she had thought were forgotten, hinting at unresolved feelings. The quiet exchange sets a tension between past and present.

Christine’s mother Marion visits and digs into family history, revealing that Christine’s first boyfriend died when he was 16. The revelation unsettles Christine and reframes the meaning of her choices. Marion’s presence nudges Christine toward considering marriage with Adam, even as her father’s illness casts a shadow.

The following year brings a shift as Adam moves in with Christine at Easter, signaling a deeper commitment. Christine quietly plans a small surprise for him, hinting at hopes for a stable future. The simple domestic change marks the beginning of a more intimate life together.

A seemingly ordinary moment is punctured by an egg smashing against a wall, unsettling Christine. In the kitchen, she is approached by the Stranger, who murmurs a heavy message: ‘I’m sorry.’ The encounter inserts an ominous thread into their otherwise quiet life.

Christine discovers she is pregnant and, soon after, she marries Adam. The couple rachets together to form a fragile, intimate unit as external pressures begin to press in. The domestic peace is complicated by the creeping sense of something being wrong.

On a May bank holiday, Christine and Adam work together to assemble a cot for their expected child. The task becomes a quiet test of their partnership as normal life is layered with tenderness and unspoken anxiety. The scene emphasizes how ordinary rituals keep time inside their fragile world.

Thirteen months later, on Father’s Day, Adam tends their son Jack while Christine’s nerves hum with danger. The Stranger’s voice returns from the baby monitor, whispering: ‘Come on little man, let's get you out of there.’ The sense that something has crept into their routine grows stronger.

Christine rushes to Jack's room and finds the cot empty, fear gripping her as she calls for Adam. He returns from another room carrying Jack, having contained the crisis, yet the air remains taut with unspoken fear. The incident deepens the sense that their life is haunted by something that doesn't belong.

Thirteen months pass to Christine’s thirtieth birthday, a milestone shadowed by growing distance. Ernie no longer recognises Christine, and Adam grows more interested in his colleague Zara. The quiet rituals of family life begin to crumble under the weight of unresolved past and present betrayals.

Marion blindfolds Christine for the annual birthday game of blind man’s buff, a ritual Christine has played since she was six. Suspicious noises drift from behind a door, forcing Christine to remove her blindfold and confront what she cannot name. The moment heightens the sense that danger hides in the ordinary.

Christine is now divorced from Adam, filming Jack as he prepares for his first day of school. She finds some solace with Ernie, who remains a fragile anchor in the house that feels labyrinthine. The routine of memory continues to fracture as her life moves forward without the partnership she once envisioned.

At Halloween, Christine dresses with her friend Bobby when an intruder who resembles Adam comes to collect Jack. Christine hurries toward Jack’s room and discovers him in the Stranger’s arms, another devastating fracture in a life that loops through the same scenes. The uncanny recurrence intensifies the sense of predestined tragedy.

Christine brings Jack home with a burn on his hand from a sparkler, and Marion notes that the injury mirrors a scar Christine bore at Jack’s age. The revelation tightens the loom of fate around the family, underscoring how past wounds echo through the present. The holiday ritual becomes a somber reminder of cycles that cannot be broken.

During Christmas, Christine and Adam seem set to reunite, and she opens a present that crystallizes the life she has lived. The Stranger reveals that he stepped onto the road by accident and could not reach Christine, uncovering the truth behind the haunting events. In a final montage, Christine dies in a road collision as memories replay, leaving the family to say goodbye and carry her memory forward.