Widow's Walk

Widow's Walk follows a boy named Remington Flynn who takes it upon himself to restore the light to Cree, his local abandoned lighthouse's Enkindler spirit.

While out on a hunting trip with his father, Remi is started by the bird his father was hunting and stumbles backwards off a small cliff side. His head pounds against a rock and he blacks out until nightfall when he awakens in the middle of the forest, alone. Pained and calling for his father, he begins to travel his way to the direction he believes is the road they drove upon only for it to suddenly downpour. Startled and unprepared, Remi frantically searches instead for shelter.

The lighthouse tower, shrouded by the tall trees and foliage of the wooded region, remains unseen by Remi as he seeks coverage under its awning. Nearby voices startle him, the topic of their conversation meaningless to him as he wrestles with the rusted lock out of fear of getting caught trespassing. It isn't until he is fully inside and runs face-to-face with the spiral staircase that he realizes he's within a lighthouse. The door, having jammed behind him, no longer offered freedom, yet he was unsure if those voices could still get inside.

He decides to instead attempt to ascend, locating a golden knife resting on a window sill. Remi decides to take it with him as a weapon and continue upwards. Four hundred and forty steps later, he reaches the service room, which startled him because it was clearly lived in.

Cree appears behind him demanding his knife back to which Remi numbly returns it, taken with Cree's golden eyes. They get to talking, Cree demanding and defensive, yet also weary and lonely. Cree takes Remi to the top of the lighthouse, atop of it, and they stand and dance, Remi adoring Cree's golden eyes. After a few hours and the storm fades, Remi informs Cree that he must return home. They are both surprised to learn it is morning. Cree's eyes were brown.

Remi descends where he came, grumpy and with aching legs. He finds the path after seeing it from the widow's walk with Cree and makes his way through the neighboring town a few miles down and takes the bus home. There, he phones his father's cell. He begins leaving to return to Cree, first with permission, then as the weather began cooling dangerously for the winter, he lost permission and instead resorted to sneaking out. Cree shows Remi the "ship graveyard" against the coast, explaining that the light simply didn't shine bright enough for the lighthouse to be of use anymore.

While passing through the town one evening, he hears talk of tearing down Cree's lighthouse and rushes back to him to inform him of the horrible news. Hurt and confused by Cree's nonchalance regarding it, Remi demands to know where Cree would live if not here, invites him over to live with him, then finally gets himself back on track.

Unsatisfied with Cree's lack of concern, Remi stays awake all night creating posters to protest the tear-down, seeking help from local clubs and groups. Nalia Miriam is the first to respond to his cry for help, offering to help raise money and awareness - she has experience from working as a volunteer at their local church. They manage to get a meeting with the community heads and Remi decides to let Nalia take the lead because he "needed to make sure somebody was eating."

As Remi returns home to gather the food he cooked for him and Cree, his mother voices her disappointment he was seemingly never home despite her worsening conditions. Remi confronts a standstill before deciding to return to Cree with the food and demand the spirit to tell him more. Despite Cree's defensiveness, evening falls and the lighthouse coerced Cree to light it with glowing tears streaming down his face. Remi falls silent, startled, yet finding himself understanding, suggesting Cree was a slave or a prisoner. Cree begrudgingly explains his condition, his enslavement to the lighthouse, how he's considered and Enkindler, a sacrificed human chosen to maintain the light of Beacons, how he's lonely and doesn't shine bright enough because there's no one around to keep him company within his forced immortality. Remi angrily claims that he was his friend.

Cree senses a knock on the lighthouse door and decides to protect Remi as they descended the spiral staircase, surprised to find Nalia had found him. She bore the bad news that the meeting hadn't gone well, then inquired from Remi to know why he's here, which Remi rebutted with inquiring how she knew he was here. Remi asks Cree if he would be alright with Nalia's help.

Nalia is amazed at the top of the lighthouse and its hauntingly beautiful view, yet remained confused as to why Remi was living here alone, offering herself as a roommate if that would help their cause.

Nalia travels to the lantern room despite Remi's protests, gasping in awe at the sight of the old technology. He accidentally refers to the lighthouse as "he" and "his" and accidentally confesses that he might be in love with "him" to which Cree then emerges from the light, illuminated and glowing and golden, warm and floating, and kisses him.

Cree then says he understands Remi now, his urgency to protect the lighthouse, but would simply like to ensure Remi understands the law of his sentence. As a chosen sacrifice, regardless of what befalls his place of imprisonment, he remained to be a slave to its walls and purpose. Remi angrily claims that its purpose is to shine, that Cree cannot be a slave to any purpose if he doesn't "uphold that purpose and purposefully make it happen." He insists it is his duty to fight with him and Nalia, not because it's a wonderful sacrifice for Cree to make but because he selfishly doesn't want Cree to cease to exist, because he wants to stay with him and live with him, in the lighthouse or anywhere else. Remi insists he'd go to the ones who enslaved Cree himself and demand him to be made human again if he wishes, he vows to do anything Cree wants to do about the situation, but nothing is not an option.

That night, they plan on allowing the lighthouse to shine as brightly as it might so the people may see its helpfulness. To do so, Remi suggests they bed together to which Cree agrees to. Nalia decides to run out and grab some condoms, lubrication and a pizza. It begins to storm and Remi holds Cree's hand upon the widow's walk and they watch silently, the light illuminating proudly, and spot several boats miss the rocks and continue safely despite the storm. A few days pass of them sharing those moments.

Remi gathers his strength and climbs to the top of the lighthouse with Cree again, then dives into the water and swims after the ships. Nalia rushes onto the walk, terrified she'd just seen Remi dive, only to see Cree sitting atop the lightning rod and confirm her suspicions. Remi climbs up the boats and inquires from each captain what assisted them in finding their way through the darkness, to which quite obviously responded that the lighthouse helped them. He begins gathering signatures, enough to successfully protest the lighthouse's tear-down. He reads some of the grateful responses from the fishermen and sailors.

Yet on his final attempt, he is caught in a net and injured, hauled upon the deck and his life threatened.

After a bit of watching Remi, Cree's smile fades as he no longer can see him stopping boats and concern rises. He stands suddenly, startling Nalia. He convinces himself, painfully so, to jump off the lighthouse into the water to save him, the voices of the Enkindlers commanding him to return to the source. Cree refuses as he's swimming and nearly pulled down by the angry spirits speaking to him, and insists the Remi was his light and he was in fact going to restore it as his duty described. This seemingly took a moment to register in the Enkindler's mind before they ease up and allow him passage, the glowing boy now emanating electricity and heat and glowing. He sparks himself out of the water and onto the boat Remi was being held captive on.

The crew defend their captured prey yet stand no chance against a spirit of light baring lightning and anger as a weapon. Cree refuses to harm the men, yet insist they release Remi instead, terrifying the boy - Cree has never been away from the lighthouse, so how was he even alive? After the men give up, Cree approaches Remi in his human form, once more amazing Remi despite looking incredibly different than before. He unties him and they share another kiss and speak about his appearance, how blessed they are, how lucky and grateful.

To get back to the lighthouse, Cree turns them both into electricity and jumps from boat to boat from the lights upon them until he sparks them back up to the lighthouse. Nalia hugs them both, then they both separate from Cree so he may return to his Enkindler form, golden glowing eyes and all. They share another damp kiss, then all agree to run to the community center with their list of signatures, Cree vowing to shine brightly and await their return with good news.

It being around three in the morning, the center is closed and so Remi and Nalia wait out for four hours for it to open. When it finally does, they are able to hand in the paper to the people and are told to wait for the response back, their determination and stubbornness commented upon.

Small time-skip and the lighthouse has become a bit of a tourist destination, and Cree gets company, most people referring him just as the boy that sits atop the lighthouse - he's always there regardless of how many months pass before someone visits again. Remi invites his parents over, yet they refuse so he instead asks if Cree would like to meet his parents. He turns himself human again by walking away from the lighthouse and once it gets to be around evening time, Nalia runs back with Cree's permission and puts a sign up on the dock proclaiming "Lighthouse off duty. Sail at your own risk" then pinned a paper to it with "It's his first date!"

As Remi's family is preparing to watch a movie, a news broadcast interrupts them and claims that a boat has crashed against the shore, that there were no casualties or deaths but officials are looking into why the lighthouse was not lit. Remi and Cree instantly stand up and say their rushed goodbyes, thanking his parents for the meal and the night but that they truly, really must get going. The hurry back to the lighthouse and Cree races up the side of it as electricity as Remi runs up the spiral staircase. As he bursts onto the widow's walk, Cree opens his arms and they embrace and kiss