A husband and father figure who desperately wants a child. He hires Anna as a gestational surrogate and offers her shelter after she is assaulted. He becomes the target of her obsession, later devises a plan with his wife to fake romantic feelings, retrieves their baby from Anna at a lake house, and faces a violent confrontation.
Roland assists John in tracking Anna's whereabouts at the hospital.
Anna's parasocial romantic obsession with John escalates throughout the pregnancy.
Desperate spouses united by infertility and a shared goal to start a family.
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