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A young field interviewer, KAT, goes to a fishing village infested with a drug epidemic to gather information on drug use. She sees things, others don’t see. She knows something terrible is about to happen, but nobody believes her. She wants to leave but she can’t. She has to stop the impending disaster.
SYNOPSIS:
Film opens with a montage of a man loading his semi automatic in the dark cellar, sea gulls in the sunny sea village dispersing as the semi automatic empties in the distance.
KAT (mid to late 20’s) is a field interviewer for National Survey on Drug Use and Health. She is assigned to a segment in a remote island, where she has to knock on 100 doors and complete 20 face-to-face interviews. There she steps into another dimension. There, what she sees and others see are not the same. She starts to think she has gone insane.
On the surface, this sleepy fishing village is cozy, sunny and alive. As Kat collects data, she realizes there is a drug epidemic that has destroyed some households. Strange that some respondents don’t see their neighbors when Kat does, think their neighbors are dead, when Kat sees them in plain sight. Old lady, RUTH, says both the teenage sons in the BUCK’s family across the road died of a drug overdose, but Kat sees the teenagers smoking a cigarette outside. Ruth lives alone and doesn’t want Kat to leave but when Kat sees a trail of blood in Ruth’s bedroom, she gets spooked and leave. Kat goes to the BUCK’s. DAVE, father of the two teenage boys, answer the door. He is extremely rude and uncooperative, absolutely hates the government, hates the study, and of course, every member of the household are selected for the interview. Kat is chased away, but JANET, the wife, runs after her and completes the interview in their shed. According to Janet, Ruth is just old and batty. She tells Kat she will convince her family to do the interview and to come back in 4 hours. Kat calls the headquarters to report her reluctance to continue in this segment. They convince her to finish the interview today and they will send another field interviewer tomorrow if needs be. She calls her friend, JIM, to confer and decides to continue.
Four hours later at dusk, Kat returns to the Bucks for the interviews and starts with the older boy, CHRIS. In the middle of the interview, Janet rush out of a bedroom crying, “Call 911”. The younger son, SCOTT, is OD-ing. Dave blames CHRIS and beats him relentlessly. Janet rush to stop Dave who runs to the cellar. He comes back with his semi automatic, and they run outside. Kat ducks behind a house and hears the semi automatic sputter, and bodies hit the ground. She peeks around the corner and sees Dave firing into other houses as he walks toward Kat. Kat runs, falls and hits her head on a rock and blacks out.
When she comes to, Kat is on the dock, just outside the fishing boat bright and early in the morning. Villagers surround her. She asks if everybody is OK and everybody replies if SHE is OK, she has come out of the boat, slipped and hit her head and has been lying there for 10 minutes. She checks her tablet. None of the households have been visited. She is shaken but decides to go on with the study. As she visits, she recognizes the faces. She knows who they are, what they will say. She calls the headquarters. They say, she better be joking or she is fired. She comes to the Bucks. The exact same thing happens. She is to come back 4 hours later. She calls the police. Of course, they don’t believe her. She calls her friend, Jim, and begs for his help. Is she going crazy? She tells him she is leaving the island. Jim replies no, she is not crazy, he remembers her telling him this hours ago and he promises to get help and that she should go back to the Bucks.
Kat tries to leave the village, but all the boats are out. She tries to find a place to hide, but her memory relates every place to murder. She gives up and four hours later, she goes back to the Bucks. Janet brings her older son, Chris. Kat insists on interviewing Scott first, but Scott is in the shower. Kat strongly insists and Janet finds Scott on the shower floor with a needle in his arm. Kat runs immediately to the cellar and searches for the semi automatic. Dave runs down to the cellar grabs his semi automatic and starts to load. Kat struggles to stop him. Bam. A shot is fired and Kat falls to the floor. We hear sirens at the back.
Kat finds herself on the hospital bed surrounded by men in suits. They congratulate her, Agent 9, for saving a village from sure disaster. She recognizes every single one of the men. Jim is among them. With Jim’s help, Kat remembers everything now. She is Agent 9, a psychic, who has been hypnotized to go into sure disaster to stop mass murders.