Lonelygirl15 synopsis
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Bree is a 16-year-old girl, who feels alienated from her peers as she is homeschooled and her family has moved around several times. She's an only child. Bree's parents are very strict and seldom allow her to go out and mingle with other teens.
Her only friend for the last two years has been Daniel, a graduate of high school (age unknown speculated 18-19) who's an aspiring film-maker. Daniel gets Bree started on the Internet. He makes her a MySpace account and a YouTube account. Then they start publishing videos online. Bree takes on the username 'lonelygirl15', while Daniel becomes 'Danielbeast'.
Her initial videos are silly and carefree. A budding romance develops between Daniel and Bree. Daniel is clearly smitten by Bree, but she is unsure about her feelings toward him.
Tension arises when Bree and Daniel start to argue over Bree's religion. Those conflicts worsen as Bree is chosen to participate in a mysterious 'coming of age' ceremony. Her preparation for the event demands that Bree follows a strict diet, receive injections and take pills. She also has to learn to read and write Enochian language.
Bree starts sneaking out to see Daniel. Her parents catch her and she is forbidden to see Daniel anymore. She continues to do so, however. She also decides to not let her parents keep her from enjoying the little pleasures that a 'normal' life offers.
Bree reveals that Daniel kissed her which implies that their relationship has changed in nature. But the ceremony preparations force Bree to cancel a date with Daniel, which makes him snap at Bree, severely upsetting her.
This tears the kids apart, as Bree decides to stop seeing Daniel and come clean with her parents about her escapades. She also decides to focus on her studies.
To help her with the process, she is assigned a 'Helper' named Lucy, who guides her through the steps for the ceremony.
Feeling left out, Daniel decides to follow and film Bree and her helper. Bree notices his actions and asks him to stop, but he continues. He even follows Bree to her ceremony in a site in the middle of the woods and manages to videotape a few scenes, but is unable to hear what is being said. Suddenly he realizes he has been discovered and flees the scene.
A few days later Daniel breaks into Lucy's apartment and finds pictures of himself on her computer. Scared about this covert surveillance, he hides out at a friend's house.
Bree reveals that what Daniel thought was the ceremony was actually a stunt designed to draw him out. This begins to make Bree unsure about the proceedings she is undergoing. Despite the fact that Lucy had been working at keeping Daniel and Bree apart, Bree goes to see him. They have a long talk and Bree decides not to do the ceremony. Her parents support her, but when they talk to the Deacons of their religion, they are faced with an inflexible stance: Bree must continue with the preparations.
Bree decides to go see Daniel, and her parents insist she stay with him for a while. But when Bree tries to contact her parents the next day, no one answers the phone.
After spending the night with Daniel, he and Bree return to Bree's house to try and find her parents. When they arrive, however, they see Bree's parents being lead out of the house by Lucy and a mysterious man, whom Bree assumes to be a deacon. They watch as Bree's parents climb into the back of a car and are driven away. Bree and Daniel then enter the house and locate a note (as well as some money) that Bree's parents left for her, inside her favorite stuffed animal. The note dictates that Bree should stay with Daniel, but both she and Daniel decide that it would probably be best if they stay on the road for a little while.
They don't go to the police, because apparently the Order has agents everywhere. So they travel to a motel, where they spend several nights, until Gemma identifies someone in their video as being a "watcher" also known as a Grigori a spy for the Order (this is speculation as it was made very popular by a poster known as Deacons but the Deacons post was made prior to the incorporation of it into the story which has lead to debates over it). Daniel and Bree leave the motel, but their relationship between is strained. They travel to another motel, but when Bree loses her key-card, and their room is ransacked, they have to leave the hotel, and go back to living in the car. The relationship is pushed a little farther by a new character named Jonas appearing in YouTube and offering Bree and Daniel a place to stay. Daniel, with Gemma's agreement, says that he can't be trusted. But Bree seems convinced, at least for now.
Daniel figures the reason the Order has been able to track them down is because his car is bugged. So he and Bree ditch the car and walk from then on. They are now homeless and without any money. Daniel wants to go back to his old life, but Bree thinks that it's still too dangerous to do so.
Bree and Daniel get a message from a young man named Jonas, who takes on the YouTube screenname 'Jonastko', offering them a place in his home. Daniel doubts he can be trusted, a thought which is echoed by Gemma. They ask the lonelygirl15.com users to vote if they should see Jonas or not. He is voted trustworthy and so Bree and Daniel get to an arranged location where Jonas has agreed to them. However, at the last minute, Daniel changes his mind and decides against meeting this stranger and wants to leave and return home. Bree disagrees and she stays at his house with Jonas now taking over the video editing and uploading responsibilities.
Daniel arrives home a couple of days later after hitching a ride in a train, riding with hobos. His absence wasn't missed at all by his parents. He has cleaned himself up and gotten his old job back.
Jonas has reported that Bree has recluded herself to her room, never leaving it for a minute and barely eating at all. Jonas shows a video of Jemma walking to a car with Lucy The Helper. He states that Jemma was a working for the Order all along.
