Five strangers awaken in a sealed concrete chamber with no memory of arrival—but they somehow know each other's names. Marcus, Maya, and Claire immediately spot a problem: the vaulted ceiling towering 20 meters above suggests a space built for far more people than just them.

As the architecture demands answers the walls refuse to give, they confront their first impossible question: why are they here, and where is everyone else?

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