Stay (2025)

A flaming wreck sits on the Brooklyn Bridge as the film opens. Emergency lights strobe across steel cables. A young man, Henry Letham, lies beside a smoking car; firefighters circle the blaze, and paramedics move with practiced urgency. Henry is alive but badly hurt; his clothes are singed and his face shows blood and soot. Someone calls out, someone crouches to check for a pulse, and Henry's presence at the crash is the first image the story offers.

The narrative then shifts to Manhattan, inside the apartment of Sam Foster, a psychiatrist, and his girlfriend Lila, an art teacher. Sam talks about a patient he is treating: Henry Letham, a withdrawn college student who draws obsessively and speaks in fragmented, anxious sentences. Sam explains that Henry has recently left his previous therapist, Dr. Beth Levy, and that he told Sam he will kill himself the coming Saturday at midnight. Lila listens quietly; she tells Sam that she once contemplated suicide herself and volunteers to help keep watch or to come with him if he wants to try to stop Henry. Sam decides to pursue every lead that could prevent Henry from following through.

Sam's first stop is the office of Dr. Beth Levy. He finds Beth disoriented and muttering to herself, repeating phrases about not having touched someone and warnings about not moving "him." Beth's speech is jumpy and fearful; she seems to believe something impossible about Henry, and she clutches legal pads with half-formed notes. Sam questions her about why Henry left her care; she answers in fragments about "the thing he did" and then falls silent, unable to supply a clear timeline.

Sam leaves and goes to the home of Henry's mother. The woman he finds answers the door as if Henry has just returned home and insists that the man in front of her is her son, asking for familiar nicknames and details only a mother would know. Her responses bounce between tenderness and confusion. A dog in the house reacts to Sam with low, hostile growls. Sam notices defensive bite marks on the dog's muzzle. He presses the woman about Henry's state and about the neighbors he might have visited, and she veers away from the questions, saying instead that Henry needs to be left alone. Stopped by the woman's evasiveness, Sam leaves unsettled.

Sam returns to his car and calls a local precinct. A uniformed officer answers and, after a pause, tells Sam that Henry's mother has died. Sam is startled; he asks how and where, but the officer's reply is clipped and insufficient. Sam hangs up, his skin prickling with déjà vu -- the woman's face returns to him as if from two different scenes at once. He tells himself he must find Henry quickly.

While Sam follows other leads, the story follows Henry in fragments that alternate with Sam's investigation. Henry appears in places he frequents: a bookshop where he reads the biographies of painters, a rehearsal studio where a woman named Athena recites lines from Hamlet. Sam tracks Athena, a waitress and aspiring actress, to a small theater during a script reading. Athena performs a passage from Hamlet in a voice that turns on a hairline between guile and tenderness. She recognizes Henry's features from an order he left at the diner and agrees to lead Sam to the neighborhoods Henry likes to haunt. They descend spiral staircases behind the theater and follow a maze of back corridors; Sam loses sight of Athena amid the low lights and returns to the main room just as she resumes the same lines from the script as if no time has passed. The repetition unnerves Sam.

Back at the bookshop, Sam sifts through stacks of Henry's favored tomes and finds a small, stark painting tucked between volumes on modern art. The painting is a gift that Henry left for the shop, and the owner tells Sam that Henry spoke often of an artist he admired -- a man who shot himself on the Brooklyn Bridge on his twenty-first birthday. The owner points to marginalia in the books Henry checked out, dates circled in a pencil that match Henry's own upcoming birthday: the next day Henry will turn twenty-one. Sam reads the penciled note and recognizes the trajectory Henry might be following. He drives toward the bridge.

Intercut with Sam's search, another family prepares for a rural visit. Seventeen-year-old Mia Hall and her parents learn over the radio that school is canceled due to heavy snow and decide to visit grandparents who live on a nearby farm. Mia has practiced cello since childhood; her father, Denny, once gave up a touring life as a drummer to support her music lessons, and her mother, Kat, organizes the small trip to the country. Mia's younger brother Teddy rides in a car seat behind them. Years earlier, Mia had dated Adam Wilde, a charismatic local musician whose band takes off and signs to a label, and Mia, who has been accepted to Juilliard, has drifted away from him. On this day the Hall family jokes and teases, and Mia stows her cello music and acceptance letter in the glove compartment.

On a rain-slick highway just outside the city, the Hall family's car collides with an oncoming truck. Impact rips metal and glass; airbags deploy and then slump against shattered windows. Mia's world fractures into immediate sensory detail: her father slumped at the wheel, blood on the dashboard, her mother's face contorted and falling backward with foam at her lips, Teddy's car seat twisted and his breathing stilled. Paramedics arrive; they extricate bodies, strap injured people onto stretchers, and shout for space. Mia watches all of this from a distance, floating above the scene, unable to interact. She follows through an ambulance door and continues to move as an observer while medical teams push through corridors.

At the hospital, surgeons rush Mia's body into the operating theater. A nurse leans close to Mia's limp form and says, in a low voice intended only for the patient, that the decision is her own: whether to fight for the life her family wants her to keep or to let go. Mia drifts through memories in the white spaces: a first music lesson when her parents realize her talent, her father selling his drum kit to pay for lessons, Teddy's small hand in hers, the first time she played in front of a crowd and Adam's blurred, intense face looking back at her. She hears footsteps and then, outside another room, a doctor talks in measured tones with Mia's grandparents about the nature of head injuries. Through the glass the grandparents stand pale as the doctor describes a pediatric case in the next room: Teddy lies there, unresponsive.

Adam arrives at the hospital and paces the sterile hallways. He tries to enter the room where Mia's body rests but is stopped by security who insist only immediate family may go in. He slumps against a wall, phone in hand. Later, a hospital worker pulls Adam aside and hands him an iPod with headphones still coiled around it. Adam slips the device into his jacket and sits outside the room, listening to recordings, playing a song he wrote for Mia. He murmurs to himself promises and confessions to the unconscious figure within.

Back on the bridge, Sam locates Henry near the guardrail where cars blur past and river water churns below. Henry stands with knees slightly bent, eyes focused somewhere beyond the city. The wind tugs at his jacket. He tells Sam he has known this time was coming; he names the midnight hour and the reasons that made the choice feel inevitable. Sam steps forward and tries to produce practical interventions: he calls Henry by name, references artworks Henry admires, misreads the moment to inject connection. Henry answers in brittle phrases about not belonging, about the artist who killed himself on the bridge, about the painting he keeps hidden. Pedestrians slow, and one man calls the police; another films with a phone from across the street. Sam reaches out, and Henry turns to him with a smile that seems both resigned and relieved. Sam glances away for a moment. That is the moment Henry lifts a pistol and pulls the trigger.

Gunfire cracks. The image of Henry collapsing echoes the earlier image of metal and flame on the bridge. Sam falls to his knees and shouts, and the crowd surges back in horror. A stretcher arrives; paramedics work around Henry's contorted form and the burning car remains in the background. Lila races toward the bridge after getting in Sam's car, weaving through traffic. She arrives as emergency workers load Henry into an ambulance. When Sam looks at Henry's face, something in the set jaw and slackened hands resolves into a single, terrible detail: Henry's chest is crushed from a prior impact; beneath his shirt a seatbelt has cut through fabric and skin. In the hospital corridor that follows, Sam learns from a detective that Henry's body shows catastrophic trauma consistent with the earlier crash on the bridge and that the pistol was a later action -- the weapon is registered to Henry and fired at very close range. Under questioning, witnesses at the crash site describe Henry's car striking a barrier, bursting into flames, and a young man staggering free before emergency crews reached him. The detective says that forensic analysis shows severe internal injuries and that, while the gunshot is a cause, the initial accident produced fatal trauma that could have been the precipitating event. Sam holds on to Henry's dialogue in his head and to the scene at the bridge; small inconsistencies in time and place seem to ripple outward.

Meanwhile in the hospital, Mia's family fate novels into definite statements. The attending physician tells the grandparents that Kat was pronounced dead on arrival -- the force of the collision had overwhelmed her immediately. The surgeon on Denny's team removes blood and broken bone from his chest in an effort to stabilize him, but Denny dies on the operating table despite the team's efforts. Teddy is taken to pediatric neurosurgery; scans show a bleeding in the brain -- an epidural hematoma. The neurosurgeon operates, but complications arise and the medical team announces to the family that Teddy has died after the hemorrhage could not be controlled. Each announcement arrives like a strike for Mia, who watches through a white fog and hears names read in the corridor outside her room.

A nurse sits at Mia's bedside later and whispers that the choice remains hers: her body's physiological fight will continue only if she wills it to. The nurse points toward the pile of photographs and letters by Mia's bed: a Juilliard acceptance letter, music scores, ticket stubs. Adam sits nearby, headphones on, playing a recorded cello piece and singing quietly under his breath the song he wrote. He produces Mia's acceptance letter and lays it on her chest with trembling hands. He promises to do anything she asks if she stays. He tells her, softly but clearly, that he will be there, that he loves her, that the music will continue. In a corridor, Sam receives a call with the notation that Henry has been taken into emergency surgery; the same voice on the other end confirms that Henry's injuries predate the current interventions and that the gunshot complicates the forensic picture.

As the film proceeds, Sam pursues additional threads of Henry's life. He learns from acquaintances that Henry had been obsessed with the painter who died on the bridge and that Henry had made a small shrine to that artist's life and death. Sam also uncovers items that imply Henry might have been present during a violent incident with his parents: a neighbor mentions yelling, a grocery list scribbled with angry notes, and the dog's bite marks that Sam had seen on arrival. A police log reveals that Henry's mother is deceased; the log does not at first specify the manner, and Sam's attempts to reconcile her death with what he has been told and seen only deepen his confusion.

In the hospital, doctors operate on Henry through the night. They close incisions and call for transfusions, and a monitor's beeping becomes a constant percussion against echoes of memories. Friends and strangers who had crossed Henry's life appear in the waiting room; Sam sits there with Lila, both drained. They replay conversations in their heads and reconstruct the path they took to the bridge. For Sam, the idea that everything he has witnessed could be a construct forms slowly and then with force: small contradictions--people who recall Henry in different places at once, the painting that Henry keeps which references a suicide on the bridge that coincides with Henry's own twenty-first--suddenly seem like the inner workings of a mind trying to stitch a life together in the face of death.

At Mia's bedside, the timeline clarifies in a different direction. Her condition stabilizes enough for visitors to approach. Adam sits by her hand and plays a song from his iPod: the piece she once loved and the same song he wrote about her. He reads her acceptance letter aloud and tells her what she means to him. He confesses that he will give up touring for a while, that he will support her study, that he will catch whatever is falling. Slowly, memory by memory, Mia inhabits the happiest moments of her life: practice rooms where the cello resonated under her fingers, family evenings with laughter and low quarrels, the small hours when she and Adam made plans to support each other's ambitions. These recollections press up against the image of the wreckage outside the hospital room and reshape the edges of her floating awareness. She squeezes Adam's hand. She focuses on the sound of his voice and the violin-like timbre of the recording. The monitors continue to report her heartbeat in beeps that keep time with the music.

Sam returns to the bridge to reconstruct Henry's last conscious movements, but medical staff at the hospital give an account that folds time back onto itself: Henry had been present at the car crash on the bridge earlier; he sustained injuries that were immediately life-threatening. In the corridor a physician explains to family members and friends that while the bullet wound is certainly grievous, the blunt force trauma and internal hemorrhaging from the car collision had already inflicted fatal damage. The implication rests on both the forensic report and on the narrative of Henry's movements before and after the crash. Sam holds Henry's sketches and reads marginal notes that appear to have been assembled at random, and he realizes that some of what he thought he had witnessed--conversations, theatrical repetitions, coincidences--could have been reconstructive hallucinations: Henry's brain recapitulating scenes to find meaning before the lights go out.

In the next stretch of scenes, the film situates both climaxes side by side. Henry's ambulance arrives, and doctors in the emergency room labor to maintain circulation. Sam roams the waiting room, replaying details that now seem less linear and more circular. Outside another operating theater, surgeons finish reconstructive work on Denny and deliver the news about Teddy's outcome to relatives. A nurse closes the curtain around Mia's bed and verifies that her pupils react to light; Adam breathes a half-sob and prepares an oral statement to the authorities about their relationship. Sam, in the hallway outside Henry's room, hears the phrasing of a report read aloud: a man was pulled from a vehicle after it struck a guardrail on the Brooklyn Bridge and burst into flames. The man's injuries were catastrophic before anyone fired a shot. Sam feels as if the bridge and its noise are internalized in Henry's skull.

Henry's last hallucinatory sequence returns him to the bridge once more but now with clarity in his movements: he imagines speaking with people who in reality are strangers, he imagines a tender proposal to Lila in a fantasy of connection, and he pictures, with precise detail, falling away from the railing into cold water. In the ER, monitors trend downward. A lead surgeon pronounces that, despite maximal intervention, Henry's body cannot maintain the necessary perfusion; life-sustaining measures are withdrawn. The monitor's tempo elongates and then flattens.

At the hospital bed where Mia lies, she opens her eyes. Adam's face, close and wet with tears, fills her vision. He calls her name, and the sound of it anchors her. She sees her grandparents and a nurse at the foot of the bed. The attending physician leans to the side and notes in a clinical voice that Mia's pupils now track movement and that she can respond to commands. Adam squeezes her hand and one of the nurses helps her inhale, measuring breath by breath. She looks around at the photographs and at Adam's trembling mouth, and then she listens to the cello piece he plays. She breathes again, and the monitor's numbers stabilize into a steady rhythm. Outside the pediatric surgery suite, the staff reports that Teddy did not survive his hemorrhage; his death is confirmed and spoken aloud in specific medical terms. The doctor says that Teddy died from an epidural hematoma, a rapidly expanding bleed that could not be controlled despite neurosurgical intervention. The physician explains that Kat had been declared dead on arrival at the hospital and that Denny died on the operating table from injuries suffered in the collision. Names are read from a clipboard and written down again.

In the final images the film offers, two beds remain central: Henry's, now quiet and attended by a small group of medical staff checking for any residual reflexes, and Mia's, where Adam sits and holds her hand as she regains consciousness. Sam stands outside Henry's room, looking at a sketch Henry made of a bridge and a man falling, a small folded paper in his palm with the date of Henry's twenty-first birthday circled. He folds it into the pocket of his coat. Lila sits on a chair in the corridor, hands clasped around a mug and eyes red. The detective completes his notes and leaves the hospital.

Henry's story concludes with his life pronounced ended by the combination of blunt force trauma from the initial car crash and the subsequent complications; the gunshot he inflicted is recorded as a fatal wound to his chest in witness accounts, but medical staff stress that significant internal injuries from the collision were present. What remains in the wake of his death are the sketches, the penciled dates, and the unanswered questions about his mother's death that Sam has only begun to unravel.

Mia's story closes with her awake, breathing, and surrounded by living voices. Adam calls her name once more and says it is time to be present. She squeezes his hand in return, and the camera stays on the two of them in the quiet hospital room as staff go about their duties. The film ends with the two parallel resolutions side by side: one young person's life ceasing amid medical confirmation of death, the other returning from the threshold and opening eyes to a world that will now demand memory and healing. The last images are clinical and specific: monitors registering rhythms, a doctor signing a death certificate for Teddy, and Adam speaking Mia's name as she breathes in and opens her eyes. The bridge recedes into the skyline, and Henry's final sketch lies folded in a jacket pocket, catalogued into a hospital file.

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