Tim is a photographer who has retreated into the suburban anonymity of Long Island. Disgruntled with modern life and increasingly reclusive, he’s wiped himself off the internet, moved back in with his sweetly eccentric mother Margo, and avoided seeing friends. But that doesn’t seem to be quite enough to grant him the peace he seeks.

One day Tim is taking photographs when he captures a woman in his frame, one who has been missing for a long time – and apparently can only be seen via camera. He becomes obsessed with this mystery, hoping to find the secret of disappearing completely.

Enigmatic and with moments of humor, “Off the Face of the Earth” touches on themes of absence and erasure, in both real and digital life – especially in a world where reality and digital identity are sometimes disturbingly commingled.