The Teacher (2025)

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Every mother knows when something's wrong. But what if no one believes you? Isabel Draper feels it—a darkness shifting beneath the surface of her ordinary life in Bare. First come the whispers: cruel posts about "wine mums," gossip at the school gates, her son arrested for drugs he swears aren't his. Then comes Daniel Craven. The new teacher is everything Isabel isn't—charming, steady, sober. Her daughter adores him. Her husband befriends him. The whole village trusts him. But Isabel sees something else. The way he watches her family. The way he positions himself at the centre of their lives. Soon anonymous videos of her worst moments spread online. Social services circle. Her marriage unravels. Everyone insists she's paranoid. Isabel knows she isn't. Daniel Craven is grooming her daughter—and he's destroying her piece by piece.