Guards Realize They Are Shooting Mutated Humans Escaping From a Secret Lab in The Gorge

In a forest, Drsa wakes up when she hears a  plane arrive. She gets her weapon ready and as soon as a man gets off the plane, he gets shot  in the head. Meanwhile former Marine Levi wakes up from a nightmare and decides to clear his  head by resting at the beach.

In the morning, he receives a text telling him to go to  the Marine Corps Base. Later at the base, Levi meets Agent Bartholomew. She knows he has  an outstanding career as an elite sniper and no family or friends, so she's here to offer  him a job.

In Lithuania, Drsa meets with her father at the cemetery for the anniversary of  her mother’s death. Her dad recently learned that it's too late to treat his cancer, so he  announces that if he isn’t dead by February 14th, he’ll self-delete so he can finally reunite with  his wife on Valentine’s Day. In September, Levi wakes up in a plane from an anesthesia-induced  sleep.

He asks a soldier where they are, but she isn’t authorized to say. She takes  all his personal items and tells him they’re reaching a no-fly zone. He’ll have to jump now  and walk the rest of the way to his destination.

Levi grabs the assigned bag and jumps, waiting  for the right moment to open the parachute. He lands safely and begins his long journey,  which entails lots of climbing, trekking, and camping. Eventually Levi reaches the edge of  a huge gorge.

Here he meets soldier J. D. , who has been here for a year and doesn’t know where they  are either.

The men go to the West Tower, which is completely self-sufficient with solar energy,  a backup generator, a rain system, a vegetable garden, and plenty of wild game to hunt. On the  other side of the gorge there’s the East Tower, but contact with that guard is forbidden. The  gorge has land mines and tactical barriers on the north and south, but there’s no way to go  across.

As J. D. continues to show Levi around, he explains the mission.

Every day Levi must  walk the western rim and restock the ammo in the automatic gun turrets, which are located every 600  meters. He must also check the containment fence, suspended mines, and cloakers, which are devices  that send false signals to all satellites to keep the gorge invisible. The radio checks in every  thirty days, but there’s no way to communicate with the outside.

In case of an emergency there’s  a panic button that will activate the Stray Dog Protocol, but J. D. doesn’t know what that entails  and advices Levi to run if it ever happens.

J. D. explains that this place is as old as the Cold  War and back then, military teams from different nations made a pact to keep the place secret, so  not even heads of state and presidents know about it.

Levi’s mission is simply to keep things in the  gorge from coming out. It sounds crazy and J. D.

used to think so too until he saw something that  the guards have named “Hollow Men”, which can now be heard screeching in the gorge. J. D.

says that  in the late 1940s, three horseback battalions were sent into the gorge to clean it out but nobody  returned, so the military is concentrating on doing containment instead. Afterward J. D.

leaves  the tower and hikes all the way to the pick-up point. A helicopter picks him up with a rope and  a soldier asks for his identity. Once J.

D. says the password, the soldier shoots him in the head  and drops his body in the mountains. A month later Levi has gotten used to his very boring routine. 

He walks the perimeter, does all the maintenance on the security systems, and does his check-in on  the radio. The voice on the other side only wants to know if everything is fine and hangs up before  Levi can ask any questions. While working on the garden, Levi notices some movement on the other  tower.

He rushes to his binoculars and sees Drsa cutting wood. She sees him too but ignores him.  One night during a storm, Levi is startled awake by a nightmare and breaks a glass, which makes  him think he’s being attacked so he grabs a gun.

When he feels pain in his foot, he realizes he  stepped on the glass and it was only an accident, so he calms down. While cleaning his foot, he  notices that Drsa is still awake and watching him, however she goes to bed when she notices him  watching her back. Another month passes and Drsa has to celebrate her birthday alone.

Tired of the  boredom, she shoots a gun to get Levi’s attention and holds up a sign asking for his name. Levi  writes back that they aren’t supposed to talk, so Drsa responds with her name and saying she’ll  do whatever she wants on her birthday. An amused Levi replies with his name too and raises a glass  so they can make a toast.

Next Drsa plays music really loudly and while she dances, he asks Levi  to dance along. He explains he is a terrible dancer but an amazing sniper, so Drsa responds  by shooting his water bottle. Levi quickly grabs his gun and shoots her bottle too, then Drsa puts  another bottle on her head intending to continue the game.

However she stops everything when she  notices something moving in the gorge. When Levi looks down, he discovers strange creatures that  look like people made of trees climbing up his side of the gorge wall. He immediately shoots  one of these monsters and causes it to fall onto a mine, which blows up and brings most  of the climbers down.

There still are a few creatures climbing, so Levi continues shooting  and Drsa helps him using her machine gun. By working together they bring down all the creatures  in a matter of minutes. When they think it’s over, a creature reaches Drsa’s balcony so she shoots  it with her gun a few times before kicking it off.

Then the monsters begin climbing the wall on her  side and both soldiers have to work together again to stop them. Another creature falls on a mine and  a new explosion happens, causing a piece of metal to fly and hurt Drsa in the shoulder. Then the  creatures start climbing both walls at the same time, so Levi and Drsa use the machine guns to  kill them and activate more mines as backup, this time effectively killing the monsters until no  more show up.

In the morning, Drsa takes care of her wounds and tells Levi it was her best birthday  ever. Then he goes down to fix all the damage and replace the mines. Suddenly a drone flies out of  the gorge and flies off.

In December Levi puts up a bunch of lights around a tree in the forest to  simulate a Christmas tree, he also puts up a sign for Drsa. From then on they start sharing lots  of activities together, like making snowmen with each other’s names, playing chess, and playing  drums made of pots. On February 14th, Levi sees Drsa crying in front of a family picture.

He  asks why she didn’t go on patrol earlier and she tells him she’s been having a hard day, so  she wishes he could be there with her. Using all the tools from the armory, Levi builds a special  contraption and shoots a rocket across the gorge, which gets stuck on a tree. It also starts a fire  but Drsa runs to put it off and notices there’s a rope attached to the rocket.

She ties the rope  firmly to the tree before running back to the tower, where she sees Levi asking her to dinner.  Then Levi slides down the rope to cross the gorge, only to get stuck mid-way. Luckily he’s wearing  gloves so he uses his hands to grab the rope and keep on moving.

Soon he makes it to Drsa’s  tower and gives her flowers. She points out he stinks because of all the exercise he just did, so  Levi agrees to take a shower. While he’s washing, Drsa takes his uniform and leaves some nice  clothes from a previous occupant.

During dinner they discuss their experiences as mercenaries  and what this kind of job does to their minds. Then they share a dance and end up doing the  dirty. In the morning Levi begins sliding on the rope to return to his tower.

At that moment  the Hollow Men appear on his wall and hit a mine, causing a huge explosion that cuts the rope. Levi  begins falling and immediately opens his parachute while Drsa rushes to her armory to grab a bunch  of weapons and a parachute of her own. She jumps into the gorge and after a few miles of falling,  she lands right into a river.

On the surface, her parachute gets stuck on a rock, so Drsa has  to cut it off. The current immediately begins pushing her and her body hits a rock, causing  her to accidentally drop the auto-ascender. The river is still pushing Drsa, so she grabs onto  some tree roots to reach land.

Meanwhile Levi is unconscious and hanging off a tree. Suddenly a  branch starts moving, revealing it’s a monster. When it gets close to Levi, he wakes up and begins  shooting at it while untangling the ropes from the tree.

He falls to the ground and lands on what  appears to be mud, but the adhesive substance begins moving because it’s actually the mouth  of another monster. The substance traps Levi as the mouth slowly starts to close. Thankfully Drsa  heard the gunshots and arrives to open fire at the creature, rescuing Levi just in time.

After Drsa  gets the substance off Levi’s body with a knife, the duo starts making their way to the wall to  find the rope. Suddenly they hear screeching before two Hollow Men appear on horses that also  look like trees. The riders keep attacking Levi and Drsa with swords and one of them even jumps  off the horse to jump on Drsa.

She stabs it in the neck with a knife to make him fall and  then shoots it in the face. The other rider takes Levi’s gun using a whip so he takes out  his gun to shoot both the horse and the rider, killing them in seconds. Afterward Drsa checks  her bag and discovers the auto-ascender fell in the river.

Since the walls are too high for  them to climb, they’re stuck there. She thinks they should follow the river because it has to  drain out somewhere. Levi takes a closer look at the creature he killed and discovers a very old  military uniform.

This means Hollow Men are the lost horseback battalions from the story. The duo  keeps moving through the forest, finding hundreds of skeletons on the way. Eventually they find  an abandoned town where all the buildings are covered by mutated plants.

There’s also damage  on the ground from an earthquake. They can hear screeching indicating more monsters are coming  so the duo decides to hide inside a church, where they find skeletons on the seats. Levi  can smell cyanide, which means these people self-deleted because they couldn’t stand living in  this place anymore.

Suddenly they hear a noise and Drsa looks up to find a huge spider that jumps  to attack her. She immediately pushes it off and falls to the ground, where she sees another  spider coming. As she stabs it, two more spiders attack Levi who quickly shoots them.

Soon lots of  spiders surround them and both soldiers keep on firing to kill as many as possible. Drsa runs out  of bullets so Levi rescues her while she reloads. They start heading toward the door but at that  moment some Hollow Men burst in.

Now the soldiers have to divide their attention between shooting  the spiders and the Hollow Men. Drsa begins pounding a creature’s head on a table and throws  it off, so the spiders start climbing on it too. Levi also has to fight a few creatures up close  and after some struggle he manages to shoot them down.

Then Drsa shoots a grenade at the back wall  to make a huge hole that allows them to escape. Levi and Drsa run through the forest but they can  still hear creatures screeching in the distance. Since they’re too exposed here, they decide to go  closer to the wall.

They find an old door and get inside to discover a facility that was overtaken  by the plants too. Deeper inside they learn this used to be a military lab. There are skeletons and  a generator that Drsa turns on.

Levi finds a tape so they play it on the projector. In the film, a  scientist explains that it’s 1946 and that this community was formed as part of a top-secret  coalition of nations. During the last years of World War II, they worked on creating biochemical  missiles.

However six days before the recording of this film, an earthquake hit the area and caused  a chemical leak. The scientists started to work around the clock to contain the toxin, which  soon merged with the DNA of the local flora and fauna and mutated them. Being exposed to the  toxin for only a few hours doesn’t do anything, but the more they worked the more exposed the  scientists were and it was slowly affecting them too, as proven by the woman on the screen showing  the branches on her stomach.

Thankfully since the base was in the gorge, the toxin never reached  the rest of humanity. In another room, Levi and Drsa find a computer from the late 2000s, which  means that after the initial incident people kept coming to continue the experiment. Levi turns on  the computer and discovers this place belongs to Darklake, a private paramilitary corporation. 

The drone they saw the other day was collecting samples for Darklake’s experiments, which are  trying to create super-soldiers. The towers and the hired guards help them keep the secret. In  the computer Levi also finds an explanation for the “Stray Dog” protocol, which turns out to be  a nuclear bomb that will sterilize the area if a leak happens.

As the duo makes their way out,  Levi tells Drsa that coming to this mission was worth it because he got to meet her. They open the  door and throw a smoke grenade before coming out. Suddenly the Hollow Man’s whip grabs her ankle  and drags her away.

As the rider takes her through the forest, Drsa tries cutting the whip with her  knife but she accidentally crashes against a tree and drops it. She also tries shooting, but she  can’t aim correctly when she keeps getting hit by rocks and logs. Levi follows the rider’s tracks  and eventually ends up finding the facility with the nuclear bomb.

Inside, the Hollow Man has hung  Drsa and turns the branch stuck in her stomach to torture her before taking it out. Drsa kicks  him in the chest and untangles the ropes from the beam to free herself. Then she pushes the Hollow  Man and grabs a piece of metal as a weapon.

The Hollow Man keeps on overpowering her and the snake  in his chest tries to attack too, but Drsa never gives up and manages to decapitate the snake  before throwing the metal at the Hollow Man. It doesn’t cause much damage but it angers the Hollow  Man, who begins chasing her around the room as he attacks her with his sword. Drsa uses bones  as a shield and makes a torch from the bonfire, which allows her to burn her enemy.

As the Hollow  Man yells in pain, Levi finally arrives and shoots him to death. After the soldiers reunite with a  hug, Levi checks the Hollow Man and notices the name in the uniform, recognizing it as the first  guard that worked in his tower. After getting the creature’s sword, the duo starts making their  way out and finds the place where the initial leak happened.

There are mutated creatures  everywhere stuck in the goo created by the toxin. Levi and Drsa begin crossing the bridge  while being creeped out by the faces breathing in the goo. Drsa accidentally steps on a root  and when she pulls at the sticky substance, the bodies begin falling to try to capture her. 

Levi uses the sword to quickly cut all the roots and rescue her. Soon bigger creatures are waking  up and roaring at them. As Levi continues to open the way with the sword, a goo whip grabs his ankle  and makes him fall.

Drsa shoots a grenade behind them and causes a big explosion. The creatures  catch on fire and the flames spread through the entire goo structure while the duo reaches the  stairs to finally get out. Afterward they search the town and find military jeeps in a garage.

They  do some maintenance on an engine and take off in one of the jeeps, driving for hours until they  find the broken rope. Levi immediately ties the rope to the jeep while Drsa shoots at the Hollow  Men who try to approach them. When she runs out of bullets they just trade places.

Once the jeep  is ready, they begin ascending the wall. It goes well for a while, but eventually they discover the  Hollow Men are climbing to follow them. They kick one off and Levi begins using the sword to kill  the others.

Drsa finds an axe in the toolbox and uses it to kill creatures too. While Levi pushes  a monster against the wheels, Drsa has to hit one that lands on the front window to make it fall.  Then a Hollow Man jumps to push Levi, who manages to grab onto the jeep at the last second but is  left hanging.

He stabs the jeep’s gas tank before climbing back, then he lights a flare and throws  it at the creatures. When it combines with the dripping propane, it causes a huge explosion that  burns all their enemies but also makes the jeep explode. Levi breaks his leg when he hits the wall  and Drsa has to help him up.

Since they’re closer to the top now, they decide to cut the rope and  let the jeep fall on top of the remaining Hollow Men. Afterward the duo climbs the rest of the way  and returns to Drsa’s tower. While taking care of their injuries, they agree to stay apart for five  days as quarantine in case they’re infected.

They also want to run away together, so they make a  plan to destroy the gorge. They share a kiss and Levi tells Drsa that he loves her before using  a grappling gun that allows him to jump back to his own tower. The next day they have to do the  radio check-in.

Instead of the usual employee, Levi’s call is picked up by Bartholomew because  she’s learned that the computer in the lab was turned on. Since Levi denies going into the  gorge, Bartholomew concludes that the person in the other tower did, so Levi’s new mission is  to kill them. Levi pretends to accept the mission before the call ends.

Then it’s revealed that the  lab computer had a camera and Bartholomew knows both soldiers were down there, so she calls  a commander to order him to get a team ready to visit the gorge. The next morning while the  soldiers are getting some mines ready for their plan, Drsa writes “I love you back” for Levi. At  that moment they see a helicopter coming so they immediately start running through the forest. 

When the soldiers find the towers empty, they send out drones and a chase begins. The drones  quickly open fire so Levi and Drsa shoot back, bringing them all down one by one while getting  a few injuries in the process. Once they reach a spot high enough, they get into their sniper  positions and shoot the cloakers.

Thanks to the mines they installed earlier, they create a chain  reaction that starts destroying all the cloakers in the area. Since the gorge is now exposed,  the Stray Dog protocol activates. Bartholomew and her team rush to the helicopter to fly away  while Levi and Drsa run as fast as they can.

The nuclear bomb goes off and the enormous explosion  brings down the helicopter, making it crash and killing everyone inside. Unfortunately Levi is  pushed by the explosion too and he falls off the edge of a cliff into a river. Drsa manages  to escape and hides in a cave to wait for Levi.

After a month of no news from her boyfriend, Drsa  decides to leave alone. Sometime later in France, Drsa is working as a waitress. One day she’s  shocked to find Levi sitting at a table.

He explains it took him a while to recover from  his injuries before they reunite with a kiss.