The year is 2037, and on the island of Isola, seven people have been selected to participate in a competition for a top-secret intelligence position with the totalitarian Union of Friendship. One of them is Anna Francis, a workaholic bureaucrat with a nine-year-old daughter she rarely sees and a secret that haunts her. Anna is not actually a candidate for the position: she's the test itself. Her assignment is to stage her own death and then observe how others react to the news a murderer is among them. It's going to plan until a storm rolls in, the power goes out, and the real game begins.
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The year is 2037, and on the island of Isola, seven people have been selected to participate in a competition for a top-secret intelligence position with the totalitarian Union of Friendship. One of them is Anna Francis, a workaholic bureaucrat with a nine-year-old daughter she rarely sees and a secret that haunts her. Anna is not actually a candidate for the position: she's the test itself. Her assignment is to stage her own death and then observe how others react to the news a murderer is among them. It's going to plan until a storm rolls in, the power goes out, and the real game begins.