"The Shining meets Sophia Coppola's Marie Antoinette in this gripping debut from an award-winning talent. The Gift is a fantastical / horror retelling of the story of Anastasia Nikolaevna and the Romanov family, the last rulers of Imperial Russia before the revolution. Her childhood days are filled playing on the palace grounds, the guards always on watch. She recieves a gift of a camera on her thirteenth birthday and begins to document her days. It is through her dreams however, where her gift of seeing the supernatural is made evident. She witnesses a creature on the edge of her vision. But could this creature actually be real? When the revolution begins, Anastasia's world comes crashing down and she must flee. But something is following her, and it might not be human."-- Provided by publisher.