Wake up in a facility meant to save you. Find out the world doesn't exist anymore, and neither do you. Kasumi has seven days to understand what she is before the vines finish the job, and every answer just confirms she's already dead. The movie doesn't warn you when it stops being about survival and becomes about accepting it. By the end, you're not rooting for escape, you're rooting for mercy.
A plague called Medousa ravages humanity, turning its victims to stone with no cure in sight. Kasumi Ishiki is one of 160 people picked by the Venus Gate Corporation for cold sleep until a treatment can be found, though it means leaving behind her twin sister, Shizuku. When she wakes after an unknown length of time, the facility is overgrown with thorns and monsters are on the attack. Most of those revived die in the chaos, but Kasumi and six others press on through the maze-like complex, searching for the truth about Medousa and what Venus Gate really intended. The film blends action, mystery and psychological sci-fi into a tense survival thriller.
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