An agoraphobe whose diet consists of pills and wine, she’s forced to slowly piece together her hazy reality — and a murder that may or may not have taken place.
In voiceover, we hear Anna happily chatting with her husband Ed attention, her reliability is again brought into question.
Anna’s strained relationship with Ed is teased out, Ed unhappy about putting on a “happy family” front for their daughter, after Anna cheated on him.
Elevan could be a reference to the real-world drug Eleva, a medicine used for the treatment of major depression in adults.
When Anna first meets Ethan Russell, he appears to be a sweet teenager dropping off a welcome gift from his mom, the real Jane Russell, aka Jennifer Jason Leigh’s character.
The first time we meet “Jane Russell” she’s Julianne Moore’s version, a cool artist who takes care of Anna after kids throw eggs at her townhouse on Halloween and she suffers a fainting spell.
David, who had a one night stand with Katie and apparently a long discussion about who she is, reveals Katie’s true identity as Ethan’s birthmother.
When Anna calls David out for having Jane’s earring, David tells the police the truth, that the earring belongs to Katherine, aka Katie, a woman who stayed with him one night.
She sees “Jane,” aka Katie, leave , then goes downstairs to ask David whether he heard the commotion.
After Ethan murders David, he informs Anna that he had been secretly letting himself into her townhouse and that he was the one who took the creepy photo of her sleeping.
He implies it was because Katie failed at her job of taking care of her family.
It isn’t clear just how much the Russells covered for Katie’s death, but given they wanted her out of their lives, it’s possible they helped dispose of the body.