Gareth Kelmendi inherits a decaying hotel in northern Albania - and a surveillance system that has recorded everything for years.

Hidden behind smoke detectors and vents, cameras capture what guests believe is private: intimacy, violence, desperation, and the moments people never imagine being preserved. The system has been running quietly, efficiently, without witnesses - except one.

Gareth watches. At first out of necessity. Then out of routine. Eventually because watching becomes the only thing that keeps him functioning.

As he settles into the machinery of observation, the hotel reveals itself as something more than accommodation - it's infrastructure for a darker economy where visibility is currency, secrecy is leverage, and morality becomes a problem to be managed rather than a boundary to respect.

What begins as voyeurism becomes function. What once required desire soon requires only habit. The screen replaces conscience. Documentation replaces guilt. Looking becomes easier than living.

SCOPOPHILIA is an uncompromising work of psychological horror that explores surveillance, moral erosion, and what remains of humanity when observation replaces participation. Set in contemporary Albania, it asks what happens when cameras capture everything - and someone watches it all.

No redemption. No catharsis. Only accumulation.

This is not a story about desire. It is a story about what happens when looking becomes enough.

CONTENT WARNING: Contains graphic violence, explicit sexual content, and transgressive themes. Intended for mature readers (18+) familiar with dark psychological fiction.

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