Laura Weaver is 26 a PHD candidate in psychology. Laura Weaver is being haunted by the Smile Entity, a entity that feeds off trauma, suffering and fear and transfers to people after possessing its current host and making them end their life in front of the host it intends to transfer to

Laura is afflicted with hallucinations that feel real to the point she can never tell what’s real and what isn’t. The Smile Entity manipulates its hosts into looking insane in front of everyone causing them to treat the host like they mentally ill, making the host feel isolated and helpless.

No one but Laura can see the hallucinations or the Smile Entity

Laura is having nightmare, but it is more like one recurring one. Which she has had without stopping since the week before. In her dream, she might be at work, in her apartment or on the train. Wherever she is, Laura explains how she gets this terrible nervous feeling in her stomach. She knows something is wrong, but she can’t remember. He is smiling at her, but it is not a friendly smile. there is also something wrong with the man’s eyes. This recurring nightmare is taking a toll on her, as there are days where she lies wide awake at night, unable to sleep

Laura is taken to a psychiatric hospital, where she eventually is seen by psychiatrist Dr. Rose Cotter. While talking with Rose, Laura reveals that several days earlier, she witnessed an art history professor end his existence. Laura then claims that an entity taking the form of smiling people is stalking and telling her that she is going to die

When you go to talk to Laura she tells you about it saying "It's smiling at me. But not a friendly smile. It's the worst smile I've ever seen in my life. And whenever I see it, I just get this god-awful feeling like something really terrible is going to happen. I've never felt scared like I do when I see it.”