Company Traps 2,000 people In The Desert For Terrible Experiment

In the middle of the desert, Michael  wakes up without knowing how he got there, only getting short flashes of his old life  in New York. Suddenly he hears a gunshot and barking dogs and notices an old man running away  from an armed group. Michael runs to pick the man up and takes him into a cave, where the dying  man asks him to tell someone named 554 that he got away.

After burying the body, Michael sees  a light in the distance and follows it until he arrives in a small town. He stops a cab and  asks the driver to take him to a train station, but the confused driver just says that this is The  Village and that he only does local destinations. Michael jumps out of the cab and walks into  a nightclub, where he tries to ask for help.

A woman can’t understand what he’s saying but  before she can ask, Michael hears barking dogs and runs outside to get in the cab again.  Hearing the driver refer to himself as 147, Michael asks to be taken to 554 and he’s  dropped at a house with that number, only for the neighbor to send him to a diner. 554 is  the waitress and when she hears Michael’s story, she identifies the old man as 93, a drunkard  that talked about crazy stuff.

At that moment Michael hears the dogs again and runs inside an  old building to then break a window to escape. As he looks down at The Village and a man in white,  he keeps having flashes from New York and falls off. This causes him to dream about being trapped  and the man in white calling him 6.

Later Michael wakes up in the hospital and discovers his doctor  is 313, the woman from the club. When Michael is feeling better, he’s taken to see 2, the man in  white who keeps calling him 6 and asking about 93. Michael wants to go home but 2 says there’s  no New York only The Village, and hands him a new ID.

Afterward Michael is taking to apartment  6, which looks just like his New York home. Then he tries buying a map at the store, but it  only shows The Village. While he wanders around, 313 tries to chat with him, but Michael ignores  her when he notices 2 towers in the distance.

He decides to steal 147’s cab and drives out to the  desert, where he climbs some dunes and discovers the desert never ends. A memory shows Michael at  a diner in New York. Lucy approaches him to borrow his phone and Michael flirts with her to invite  her to his apartment.

In the desert, 313 finds Michael unconscious and takes him back in her car,  saying she wants to help him with his delusions. When he’s back in The Village, Michael goes to  93's apartment and finds a hidden drawing in a bottle. At that moment 2 arrives and asks about 93  again, but Michael insists he wants out.

2 tells him there’s no out and calls him crazy before  leaving. Then Michael opens 93’s drawings and finds the Big Ben in London, which means 93 was  killed because he knew something. Michel asks 554 for an explanation and she tells him that 93  claimed his drawings were from his other life before The Village.

Meanwhile a public broadcast  announces that 93’s body was found dead in the desert. Michael searches for 554 and convinces  her to share more information. 93 was sure he had another life before the Village and that they  were all prisoners.

554 has dreams too and reveals a drawing of the Statue of Liberty while saying  there are many people in the Village who have dreams like this. At 2’s home, he gathers some  medicine and feeds it to his sleeping wife M2 while his son 11-12 wonders why 6 believes  there is another place. That night Michael visits the empty grave where 93 will be buried. 

313 approaches him and Michael tells her about his meeting with Lucy. The next morning Michael goes  to 93’s funeral and tries to tell anyone that 93 had found a way out, but 2 quickly kicks him out.  Afterward Michael heads to the diner and hears the radio mention a gas explosion in Brooklyn right  before the diner explodes.

As he passes out, Michael has a vision of faces offering a  testimony. He quickly wakes up and rushes to check on 554, who says 93 told her to follow the towers  before the doctors take her away. Sadly 554 dies at the hospital.

313 tells Michael he should’ve  stayed away from 554 and that things like this sometime happen, but the Village just moves on.  Then Michael goes to 2’s home and screams that he’ll find a way out before running into the  desert. When he tries following the towers, he’s suddenly caught by a white hovering ball  known as Rover, which causes him to have visions again.

Hours pass as Michael lies unconscious in  the desert and dreams of going to his apartment with Lucy, he also remembers being at the beach as  a child. He’s found by 16, who brings him back to the Village. 2 claims that 16 is Michael’s brother  and when Michael denies it, 16 shows him a picture of them as kids.

He also mentions how Michael  got the scar on his arm. Michel denies it all but keeps having flashbacks of the beach. Afterward  16 takes Michael to his home and introduces him to his family, who treat him as a beloved relative. 

Since 16 insists on therapy, he attends a session and can’t stop thinking about Lucy while talking  to the therapists. She had borrowed his phone but never made a call. However he tells the therapists  about the beach instead since they don’t know what that is.

After Michael leaves the clinic, 16 tells  him he got him back his job and Michael becomes a driver for the sightseeing bus tour. While he  drives, 16 provides commentary on the sights for the passengers. At the same time 2 visits the  clinic so he can get a report from the therapists.

Furious at their comments, he throws a grenade  at them, saying he doesn’t believe in therapy. He only needs 6 to assimilate. Back to Michael,  he drives the bus into the desert while noticing a passenger keeps winking at him.

Suddenly he  notices an anchor in the sand and goes off-road to check it out, talking about the ocean. However  16 just calls it a desert folly and drags Michael to an abandoned train station, reminding him  they used to play there when they were children. Michael admits it feels familiar.

Later Michael  meets with 313 for dinner and he tells her about boats. He also keeps thinking about Lucy, who  had admitted she didn’t need a phone, she only used that excuse to talk to Michael. He thought it  was curious that he met her on the day he quit his job, but she called it a coincidence.

Days pass  and Michael continues to work for the tour bus, feeling stuck in a routine. One afternoon they  stop at 2’s house and he comes aboard to announce that 16 and his family have won a holiday trip to  the resort. After work Michael goes to see 313 and discovers she stole the drawings from his pocket. 

313 apologizes and admits she likes the idea of other places, she just doesn’t want to lose him.  This triggers another memory in which Michael told Lucy he was a suspicious person. He worked at a  company called Summakor observing security footage and collecting data on people, so started to see  the world in patterns and numbers.

That night, 11-12 asks his father about his childhood because  he can't remember it. 2 just says that memory is fickle and that 11-12 should never doubt his  family. Meanwhile Michael dreams of the beach and remembers seeing his brother walking into  the ocean.

The following day Michael takes 313 to the train station and tells her that he feels a  strange connection to the place. Matching a memory from the beach, he digs out an old box. There’s a  picture with a note he wrote as a child and signed it with the name 6.

313 thinks this is proof  The Village is real while Michael insists it's a trick, but now he's unsure. He thinks about  Lucy and how he told her that during his work, he noticed too many people changing and sent a  report. The only answer he got was “cease and desist”, which is why he quit.

Lucy admitted that  she worked for Summakor too and mentioned that they still controlled him. Later the winking woman  approaches Michael to tell him she goes on those bus trips because once she heard the ocean waves.  Michael asks 147 to take them to the desert and they visit the anchor, unaware that 2 is spying  on them.

They see the towers but can’t hear the ocean. At that moment Michael sees the bus drive  by and remembers the resort appointment. Minutes later Michael is driving the bus to take 16 and  his family to the vacation they won.

As they cross the desert, Michael sees the towers and starts  driving toward them while hallucinating that 2 is behind him. Concentrating on his memories of  the beach, he keeps going only to find the anchor again. Michael freaks out on the sand and suddenly  appears tied to a post, where 2 pours water at him before inserting a grenade in his mouth.

At that  moment 16 snaps him out of it and Michael wakes up inside the bus. He apologizes to 16 and begins  accepting he may be insane, only for 16 to admit they aren’t brothers. The group arrives at the  resort and while the rest of the family has fun, 16 talks to Michael in private.

16 says “they”  made him lie and he was rewarded with this vacation for his family. He’s very scared of them  but doesn’t know what they want Michael for, only that it has to do with “the other place”. Later  16 joins Michael and the winking woman on their search for the ocean.

Eventually they finally  find it and an excited 16 runs into the water, but soon Rover appears and brings him down.  Michael watches feeling helpless and remembers he lost his brother as a kid the same way. When  Michael tries to bring 313 to the ocean, there’s nothing but sand left.

Later he tries telling 16’s  family about the death, however they’re too busy laughing at the TV. Soon nurses appear to restrain  him and take him to the clinic, where 2 mocks Michael until he calls himself 6. Sometime later  6 wakes up outside an old building in the desert.

909 picks him up in his truck, warning him this  isn’t a safe area. 6 comes along while thinking how Lucy tried to escape his apartment and he had  to catch her. Meanwhile 313 starts having dreams and drawing what she saw.

Eventually 6 arrives  at a golf course to meet 2, who explains 909 is one of his spies in the Village. He calls spies  “undercovers” and their job is to find and report people who dream of another place. 2 wants 6 to  work as an undercover and 6 accepts even though 2 admits it’s a trap.

His first mission is to watch  1955, a history teacher who has been turned in by one of his students. 6 starts working as a teacher  in the school as cover. During history class, he learns there has never been a citizen 1 and the  concept of 2 is an act of humility.

During breaks 6 tries to talk to 1955 about weird dreams, but  he denies having any. Later while having coffee with 313, 6 asks if anyone here lives in fear. She  tries denying it but she’s obviously very nervous.

At last she admits that if anyone acts different  they get “the treatment”. 313 also announces they must stop seeing each other because anyone that  gets close to him dies. Meanwhile 2 gives M2 a different kind of medicine that wakes her up. 

They share affection and a meal before she goes catatonic again. 909 and 6 watch 1955 all day  and night but can’t find proof of everything. 6 also starts teaching surveillance class and gets  creeped out by how the kids keep an eye on their families.

He decides to give them a new task: they  must find out who they’re working for. One night 909 and 6 see 1955 hang a towel outside, which 909  thinks is a coded signal. Then the duo climbs on 1955’s roof and drills a hole to spy on him with  a tiny camera.

When 909 gets a phone call he asks 6 to fetch coffee from his truck. 6 looks at 909's  notes and discovers he is 909's secondary mission, also that 313 is a suspect. When 6 returns to the  roof, 909’s phone rings again and the noise alerts 1955 of their presence, so he self-deletes.

The  duo picks the body and drops it at the entrance of the hospital before driving away. The next day,  147 plays with his daughter and notices a huge hole in the ground. Meanwhile 6 goes to 313’s  house and finds a camera in her roof.

At the same time, 2 goes to his garden and finds a hidden  camera too. He calls 909, who immediately blames 6. 2 wonders if his son has been hanging out with  6 since he’s been behaving strangely lately.

In the evening, 6 follows 909 to a bar and discovers  he’s secretly dating 11-12. This makes 6 think of Lucy, who informed him that he made too many  questions and that’s why Summakor wanted to stop him. Afterward 6 visits 1955 in the hospital  and asks for help to find other dreamers but 1955 says he doesn't know anything.

Suddenly 6 hears  drilling and rushes outside to run after the spy, but the person is gone. On top of a tree, his  student 1100 watches. The next day 2 gives 6 a new mission: he must spy on 909.

Afterward 6 he  goes to 313 to warn her about the camera in her house. 313 answers by showing him pictures of  him and 909 on a roof, which were sent to her anonymously. She thinks he’s been spying on her  and tells him off.

Next 6 follows 909 and watches him meet with 11-12. 909 thinks they shouldn’t see  each other for a while because 2 is suspicious. 6 bursts in and asks them to take all surveillance  off of 313, or he'll tell everyone about their affair.

When 11-12 returns home, 2 tells him he  doesn’t trust 909 and he may send him to therapy to get his secrets. 11-12 has no choice but to  visit 909 to tell him his father knows. 909 knows what’s coming and says “it’s ok” before 11-12  repeatedly stabs him.

Meanwhile 6 goes to 313's house and discovers she’s being taken away in a  black van. Desperate, he goes to 909’s for help and finds him bleeding to death. 909 asks if the  dreams are true and 6 confirms it.

A memory shows Lucy asking Michael for the real reason why he  quit, concluding he changed the same way people he watched changed. In the evening 6 finds 11-12,  who tells him 313 was sent into the tunnels for treatment. 6 asks 11-12 to send him there too.

The  next morning, 11-12 dresses 6 up to make him look like a patient and the black van takes him away.  In the tunnel, 6 finds 1100 and she helps search for 313 while dogs keep barking at them. They  find her quickly but when they try to leave, Rover swallows them all.

Then men in white drop 6 at his  apartment. Meanwhile 2 rewards 1100 for her spying with ice-cream. She admits she’s been spying on  him too, so 2 sends her to treatment.

Later 11-12 finds a huge hole in the garden, but 2 dismisses  it as an “ambient anomaly” due to the weather. 6 dreams of Lucy and how she begged him to come  back to the company, mentioning the name Curtis. Michael got nervous and kicked her out, but she  left her number before leaving.

Regretting his attitude, Michael called her and heard her phone  outside, so he ran down the hall and discovered she collapsed on the ground. He woke her up and  Lucy said she felt sick so she asked to be taken inside before hugging him. In The Village, 6 wakes  to the sound of a woman on TV announcing it's time for him to be romantically matched.

He also finds  a matchmaking service card that he takes to 313, who explains this is how they do things here and  he should try. 313 is having weird urges around her scalpel. 6 decides to go to the matchmaking  office and is very skeptical of the process.

He almost leaves but freezes when the system matches  him with 4-15, a blind woman who looks just like Lucy. In the memory, a black van passed by the  street while Lucy said she looked at his file, then she kissed him. In the clinic, 2 tells 313 he  knows she’s a dreamer and blackmails her by asking her to betray 6.

The next day 6 meets 4-15 at the  diner. She says she lost her sight at six while she was asleep, probably as result of trauma.  6 listens to her while he remembers snuggling Lucy before they got dirty.

These flashbacks  keep mixing with him almost kissing 4-15 and he calls her Lucy, insisting they already met. 4-15  accepts the kiss but says things are moving fast and leaves. Meanwhile 11-12 steals samples of his  mother’s medicine, which 2 sees on camera.

Then 11-12 takes the samples to 313, asking her to  discover what it is. He also asks if 6 is crazy and she says he isn’t. Later 147 shows 6 and 313  the hole in the ground before deciding to report it.

While he’s on the phone, his daughter goes  out to play and falls into the hole, instantly vanishing. The men in white arrive in the black  van to stop 147 from going after her, and his wife blames him for leaving the door open. Soon the  men in white fill the hole.

In the middle of the night, 313 injects a clear liquid into 6 and 4-15  under 2's supervision. The next day 6 visits 4-15 at her home at meets her father, who already wants  them to marry. Meanwhile 313 meets with 11-12 and tells her what the medicine is: one is a powerful  sedative, another a hallucinogen, and the third is made of unknown contents.

Soon 2 invites 313 to  his home and shows her M2, asking if there’s any way to reverse love. 313 says it must be possible.  That evening, 6 tells 313 that he’s sure the black van takes him away every night.

313 denies it  while admitting she’s jealous of 4-15. Soon the black van takes a sleeping 6 away to the clinic,  where 313 injects him with a different syringe this time. As 6 wakes up, 2 arrives and explains  that his feelings for 4-15 have been artificially created using Gene Symmetry Therapy, meaning they  injected him with 4-15’s genes.

2 asks if 6 would still like to marry 4-15 and he says yes. Later  6 keeps thinking about waking up next to Lucy in New York while in the present he asks 4-15 to  marry him. On the wedding day, 313 shows up at the church to tell 6 his feelings for 4-15 won't last  but he ignores her, so she kisses him instead.

An upset 4-15 runs to the desert and 6 follows her,  only for Rover to knock her out. As 6 runs to her, he remembers Lucy telling him to stay away because  it’s dangerous. 6 makes 4-15 repeat her name until she finally admits she’s Lucy.

She explains she  pretended to be blind so he wouldn’t suspect he’s the woman from his past and that she came to love  him before kissing him. 6 freaks out and claims he’s cured of her, so 4-15 admits 2 brought her  to break 6’s heart. Then 4-15 says she’s glad he’s cured of her and leaves.

Afterward 6 visits 147,  who is considering jumping in a hole to look for his daughter. 6 convinces him not to do it as 4-15  shows up and jumps instead. In the memory, Michael went out to buy breakfast and when he came back,  he watched his apartment explode.

He ran into the building but the firefighters wouldn’t let him  enter his place. Lucy left a message in his phone, saying they were selling tickets for his execution  but called it a promotion, so she advised him to stay away from Summakor. However he went back  to the company anyway.

In the Village, 6 goes to 2’s home and yells at the entrance, accusing  him of killing 4-15 and swearing revenge. Nearby, a man that looks like 6 watches him. That night 2  goes to the bar to see 11-12, who calls his father a liar and demands to know where The Village is.

2  tells him The Village is inside M2’s mind and that she volunteered for the sake of her son. Then  2 gives 11-12 the key to the medicine cabinet, offering him a day with M2. Meanwhile 313 dreams  of a girl with a box over her head.

When she wakes up she finds 6 sitting on her bed. He asks why  she kissed him at the church and kisses her now, but 313 is haunted by the nightmare and pushes  him away. In the morning, a desperate 6 appears at the clinic asking for help finding 41-15.

313  wonders why 6 wasn't worried about 4-15 last night and 6 says he never went to her house. Furious,  313 kicks him out. Afterward 6 runs into 147, who tells him he doesn't want another fight and  leaves in his cab.

A confused 6 returns home and finds his apartment in shambles, there’s also a  receipt from the shop on the floor. On the mirror, someone has written "be seeing you". A memory  shows Michael trying to get back into the company, but his cardkey was deactivated so he had to get  a new one.

Next, 6 goes to the store and asks the shopkeeper what the receipt was for. After  some hesitation, the shopkeeper responds it was for a knife. After 6 leaves, the shopkeeper  calls the clinic.

Then 6 finds 147 and tries to convince him that his earlier fight was with  an impostor. Suddenly the other 6 appears on the street and 6 chases him into a building,  where he finds the words “kill 2” written in blood. His copy called 2x6 jumps on him and holds  his knife to his throat while telling him to kill 2.

6 pushes him off and 2x6 disappears.  Moments later 2’s bodyguards are beating 6 up for trying to get into the house. He tries  warning 2 that a copy of him wants to kill him, but 2 says that’s just how 6 feels.

Then 2 walks  through town while getting rid of his accessories. At the same time a message on the speakers informs  citizens that a 2 impersonator is around, so they should report him if they see him. The fake 2  goes to the shopkeeper to get cigarettes, which are supposed to be banned.

After 2 leaves, the  shopkeeper calls the clinic. Meanwhile 11-12 wakes M2 up with the black medicine. They have lunch  together and M2 claims she saw everything 11-12’s ever done growing up in her mind.

M2 hopes that  11-12 will see that the Village has all he needs, but he says it doesn’t have her. 6 approaches  the 2 copy to warn him about the killer again, but the man calls himself un2 and doesn’t take him  seriously either. After 6 leaves, un2 notices the other 6 nearby.

At that moment he’s found by 147,  who takes him to his house for some cake. Soon the black vans with the dogs appear and un2 runs  away. Back to 6, he goes to see 313, saying the injections may’ve split him in two.

However 313  is still angry and ignores him. The memory shows Michael going to see the access guy, who turned  out to be the shopkeeper. They had a conversation that matched the knife chat and Michael predicted  what the access guy would say, leaving him shocked.

Then Michael asked him for a card that  would send him to the Purpose Floor. Meanwhile Un2 finds 313 and says he’ll take her to the  other place whether she likes it or not. When she returns home, 6 visits her and comforts her with  a kiss, but 313 notices another 6 outside and runs away in confusion, ending up in the desert.

As M2  spends time with 11-12, more holes appear in The Village. 11-12 wants to go to the other place but  M2 explains people who were born in The Village can’t leave because they don’t exist in the other  place. Only those who come from there can return.

Upset, 11-12 runs to the desert and throws the  key in the sand. When he returns to the Village, 6 asks 11-12 where his father is to protect him.  11-12 can tell this is actually 2x6 wanting to kill 2 but answers anyway because he’s decided he  hates his father.

Then he returns to the desert to get back the key and puts M2 to sleep. At the  local church, 2x6 finds Un2, who explains he created The Village because he wanted a fresh  start from the apathy and cruelty of the real world. 2x6 grabs Un2 and gets ready to kill him,  but 6 appears and tells him they shouldn’t become a monster.

2x6 yells at something that isn’t  really there, revealing these copies are just different parts of their consciousness fighting  for control. 6 admits he must accept his inner darkness and only as one they can defeat 2. This  causes 2x6 to disappear and un2 to become 2 again.

When 2 returns home, the guards capture him, but  11-12 tells them this is the real one. 2 claims that the shopkeeper was the impersonator and the  man is dragged into the clinic. In the desert, 313 finds a glass door with a Summakor logo on  it and goes inside.

She follows a long corridor until her visions begin again, so she runs back  to the desert. In the real world, Michael and the access guy go to the Purpose Floor, where tons of  monitors display profiles of Village residents. Michael recognizes them as subjects of his work. 

As he watches the video of Lucy’s warning, he realizes he chose all these people to be brought  into this project. While access guy leaves, Michael looks through the window and realizes  this is the tower in the desert. He can see 6 in the village and bangs on the glass, but he isn’t  heard.

6 gives the towers one last look before disappearing. Then the real version of the winking  woman tells Michael a car is waiting to take him to his appointment with Curtis. Sometime later  new houses are built and new people arrive in the Village on the bus.

6 asks them where they took  that bus and they just answer the Village. Moments later 6 receives a summons to the clinic and 313  takes his blood for a test, getting shocked by the results. A furious 6 runs to confront 2, showing  him that he’s gotten a Certificate of Dying.

2 explains 6 never assimilated so this is his  final choice: this life or no life. Feeling sick, 6 coughs while being haunted by flashbacks. 313  also continues to be haunted with visions from another life and wants to find a way to help  6.

2 tells her there is something she can do, but that she mustn’t let the girl from the other  place control her. Later 6 visits 11-12 and asks him to leave the village too, but the boy refuses.  In New York, 147 turns out to be Michael’s driver.

He’s taken to another tower where he meets Curtis  and Helen, who are the real 2 and M2. Helen is in a dreamlike state and Curtis explains that The  Village is an experiment happening in her mind. She’s a biochemist who gave up her reality so  that broken people could have better lives.

Curtis confirms Michael’s profiling work brought the  best people to the project. In the village 11-12 enters his parents' bedroom and puts a pillow on  M2’s face until she’s dead, then he hugs her. In the Clinic, 2 mocks a dying 6 with the details of  his upcoming funeral while 313 listens from afar.

When 2 returns home he finds M2 dead and 11-12  missing. He rushes to the bar with his men, only to discover his son has self-deleted. Devastated,  2 carries 11-12’s body and takes it home, where he puts it inside a glass coffin.

Holes begin to  open around town again while 2 goes to see 147, appealing to his sympathy because they’ve both  lost a child. 2 tells 147 there's something he can do to end the pain, but 147 must help by  saying that 6 is the one when the time comes. In New York, Curtis takes Michael around the city and  shows him the positive effects The Village has had on suffering people.

Michael claims Curtis doesn't  have the right to help people without their consent but Curtis ignores it and offers Michael  an opportunity to help him with the experiment, giving him a pass to the Purpose Floor. In the  village, 313 tells 2 that she wants 6 to live at any cost. 2 shares his plan and makes 313 promise  she’ll give herself to 6 to save him.

Afterward 6 is brought to the clinic and keeps seeing visions  of being trapped in a corridor while 2 says he wants the Village in him. Rover appears above  them and 2 claims it was brought by 6’s fear, pointing out that the door to leave has always  been there and 6 refuses to see it. Unable to accept this, 6 runs away.

Sometime later the  citizens gather for 11-12's funeral. 6 attends looking healthy and tells 2 that there are more  holes appearing so they should free the people. 2 tells the funeral crowd that 11-12 self-deleted  and that 6 was right, they’re all prisoners.

A hole appears in the ground and people panic, but 2  claims he doesn’t know how to fix it. A kid throws a rock at 2’s face until he claims that 6 is  the one with the answers, and 147 repeats it as promised. The whole crowd begins chanting  that they want 6 and 2 takes out the pills, saying the only way to shut the holes is for a  dreamer to take M2's place.

In the real world, Curtis takes Michael to a church where he reveals  the real 313 is clinically insane because of her childhood trauma. The only thing that helps her  is the Village. 6 is ready to take the medicine, but 313 takes it first saying this is for  him.

A desperate 6 kisses her to try to take the medicine back but it’s too late.  313 and her real counterpart collapse at the same time. Then 2 announces he gives 6 the  village before pulling the pin from a grenade, disappearing with the explosion.

In New York,  Curtis goes home to find Helen awake and healthy, so they can start over. On the Purpose Floor,  Michael takes a seat as the new head of Summakor. In the desert, 6 and a sedated 313 look out  on The Village and 6 admits it’s beautiful.