When the cornavirus hits, a computer repairman becomes ultra-paranoid, and returns home to take care of his mother, by shutting her in the house, and preventing her from making contact with the outside world.
He spends most of his time "doing his own research" and ends up down the rabbit hole of apocalyptic bible conspiracy...which acts to drive him further into isolation...eventually resulting in a series of paranoid delusions, which manifest themselves in the form of audible and visual hallucinations.
A dark entity from the internet convinces him that he has been chosen by God, to read the signs necessary to save the world from apocalyptic devastation.
You can tell the whole thing is euro-centric, as he never buys into the whole qanon, covid-19 is a hoax, narrative...rather, quite the opposite...as he thinks even healthy people have something called "long covid".
While all this is going on, he is also being investigated for stealing something from his job, which he quit in order to "take care" (read: imprison) his mother.
So with the real world closing in on his isolated reality...his two worlds are about to collide.
Everything goes downhill when his sister comes to visit, and tells him she has had covid.
From this, his mother ends up getting sick...which acts to reinforce his beliefs...and push him deeper into his delusions.
Inevitably driving things to take a dark- and weird- turn, you'd never suspect.
Even if it is all just in his head.
The whole thing is much more of a psychological thriller, than it is a horror film, in my opinion.
And I think it is likely to confuse most North American audiences.
But it's easy enough to see what they were going for with the film.
However, it's just not very good.
Especially considering certain aspects of the subplot never come to fruition, and seem to be abandoned in the end...which comes off as incredibly rushed and abrupt.
3 out of 10.
