The film tells the story of a man named Nev, who befriends a little girl named Abby after she emails him a painting. Abby is supposedly a 8-year-old child prodigy who paints beautiful pictures, and as Nev (filmed by his brother, Ariel, and a friend of theirs) becomes better friends with Abby, he meets Abby's older sister, Megan, and their mother, Angela over Facebook. He becomes more romantically involved with Megan via IMs, texts, and phone calls. He also gets mail from the family, including paintings. As Nev continues communicating with Megan, a supposed songwriter, he discovers she didn't really write all the songs she said she did, and various other things about her turn out to be false.
The large twist at the end is that Nev and his friends take a trip and go to meet Megan and her family, to find that Angela is the only one of the three who is real. The other two were personae created by Angela, who is married and takes care of two disabled sons. She is also the painter of all of Abby's paintings. She continued to lie at first by saying things like she is ill with cancer. She doesn't really have cancer, Nev finally gets her to admit the truth, and he is sympathetic during the whole ideal. Angela, apparently very lonely and bored, was also the voice of "Megan" during her romantic talks over the phone with Nev. She used pictures of models on her facebook representing Megan and some of her friends. It was all made up to impress people.
She claims to feel bad about the whole thing, and some tears shed. The husband also knew most of what was happening, and gave his point of view about Angela. He seemed quite supportive. In the end, they all apparently remained friends. Angela supposedly changes her Facebook profile later and adds her real picture there and post her paintings as her own.
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