Overview

“A valiant story of a young teen’s ambition and perseverance to fight physically and emotionally against her own personal obstacles, a masked psychopath, and the horrors that surround her within the dubious amounts of trees and tragedies.”

When Maxine was eight, she lost her father in a tragic accident that left her deaf in one ear. Six years later, as a means to bring their broken family back together, her mother persuades her to take a family camping trip to the Appalachian mountains with her little brother, along with her new fiancée to bond. Things seem to be going smoothly, until nightfall brings a sinister force to end their day.

A masked intruder has come across their camping site and has impulsively brought a gruesome demise to her family that she had to bear witness to. With only her wits and teachings from her father as a young girl, Maxine has to persevere and fight against the wrath of Mother Nature and an intelligent psychopathic hunter in order to survive.

A Sapphic, Coming of Age, Psychological Thriller themes of trauma, survivor’s grief, hunter vs the hunted, sexual awakening, and ecological horrors, WHAT DOESN’T KILL YOU is a roller coaster of emotions with an unforgettable ending.