- A family awakens to find themselves trapped in their own home, all windows and doors sealed by impenetrable walls. They desperately try to escape but everything fails. Then the wife notices a bizarre pattern.
- Ann Preston (Mary Crosby) wakes up sweaty and distressed at 4:10 in the morning. The radio blasts on. She goes to the kitchen to have some water because it's so warm-up and suddenly, realises that a wall of a strange metal has been risen during the night. He wakes up his husband Michael "Mike" Preston (Nicholas Clay), an engineer, and they check all around the house. The same grey metallic goes around the house. It's 30 degree, and going up.
The child, Sarah Preston (Debbie Chasan) also wakes up of the heat. She is a bit rebellious, and refuses to call her mother "mom", "mamma" or anything like that: she always says "she" or "Ann". She drinks some water and plays with her doll. Her parents try not to scare her and stay calm; however, the child is quite clever and realises soon about the imprisoning wall. Ann realises for the first time a tattoo her husband has on her wrist, a kind of thunder image within a circle. The parents try to sit Sarah in front of the TV, but there is nothing on, only the image of the blue thunder
They try to look for ways out of the house. There seems to be a telephonic line, but nobody at the factory where Mike works answers. Mike thinks it's too early, and maybe nobody is there. Then they try to call the police and the firebrigade, but suddenly, the line is dead. The radio gives only static and the ugly blue logo is still on on the TV screen. Sarah begins reading Alice in Wonderland, holding her favourite doll.
Sarah screams: there is a fire in her room. The bedroom is on fire because somebody set it with some blue-logoed matches. They use a wet blanket to set the fire out.
Mike finds an axe and tries to make a hole in the wall, to no avail. They have another idea and Mikecracks open a hole in the penthouse of the house, but he finds the grey metallic wall there as well, with a separation . The heat is growing up and up. They drink water, there is so much heat that the fridge starts to make strange sounds and everything is going to be spoiled. Sarah begins to notice the blue-thundery-in-a-circle logo everywhere, in all the packages of food... The heat is increasing, she's beginning to feel sick and can't move her right arm - it does't hurt, it's a question of not being able to move it and feeling nothing.
They have the idea of trying to check around the garage. There's the blue metallic wall as well. Mike thinks about using their car and crash it against the grey wall. He tries twice crashing the car against the grey wall, protected only by some cushions, to no avail.
Mike gets weaker and sicker with every failed attempt. At one point, he feels like one of his legs is hurt and can't move it. As the temperature keeps on rising, Sarah becomes more irritated, is fed-up of reading Alice in Wonderland over and over again and wants to play. Her parents are on the bed, feeling weak and exhausted, so Ann dismisses Sarah in unfriendly terms. Suddenly, they hear Sarah's calling out for them. At least, they are a bit dizzy and doesn't realise what's happening, but then they wake up. Sarah played on her own and ended in the space between the house and the grey wall. Sarah is panicky, and feels that got stuck and can't move. Ann tells Mike to talk to her and calm her down. Little by little, they coax Sarah to stop panicking so that she herself can go back inside the home. Sarah hugs Mike, but refuses to talk to Ann. Furthermore, conditions worsen when there is no more tap water or orange juice, although for the time being Mike hides that information from Ann and Sarah.
There are weirder things: Ann has realised that Sarah's photo album only has photographs of Sarah as she is at the moment, with the same age. Ann knows that she has reviewed the photo album many many times, but she never realised before that there are no photos of Sarah as a baby or younger. Mike can't recollect taking the pictures either. Ann also realises that she can't remember her parents, or her childhood, or what she did yesterday. When Ann confronts him with the information, Mike realises that he can't remember anything either, not even where he works or what he does there. He can't remember his parents, his childhood or even the exterior of his own house - in spite of having a framed photograph of it; they don't even know who their neighbours are. They speculate with the grey wall being a protection against a possible nuclear war, or that the grey wall is affecting their mental abilities and preventing them to remember their pasts. There is a greenish liquid/substance which has been melting in the sitting room from the fireplace; there comes a moment when it spills out onto the corridor outside and the main stairs to the penthouse.
They have another idea when they have just given up hope: to dig a hole under the house and escape through there. Mike sets to up, although he has trouble walking, sitting up or moving around because of his leg. They find some insulating pellets, but below them, there is the grey metallic wall again. They have dug right on top of the blue-engraved logo.
They have to give up: there's no way out, and without water and with more and more heat, they will not survive for long. The three family members are together, defeated. Everything seems to move around; all things and everybody dangle out.
Suddenly, we change perspective. A female child dressed up in futuristic clothes (Joanna Joseph) complains to her mother (Suzanne Church) that her brother has put her dollhouse inside the heating system conducts. Everything is damaged and torn inside the dollhouse, there are scratches all around the heating walls, and even the three playdolls inside the dollhouse have been affected by the heat, especially Sarah, whose chips and circuits make it behave oddly when there is too much heat. There is the problem with a chocolate bar the child had put inside the heating vent: it melted all over the place and into the dollhouse. The mother tries to calm down the child, telling her to stay with the dollhouse while she goes to pick up the brother and make him to clean the mess inside the dollhouse. She adds that, if the computer programming inside the dolls begins to change their behaviour, they will have them mended by the company. The child stays with the dollhouse, throwing away the damaged armoured car, picking up the axe and placing it inside the house again, and placing Ann, Mike and Sarah in a bed. "Person" Ann's arm falls to the floor as it were a dead arm. The child moves the house around and lowers a side. We can see the blue-logo of the manufacturing company in one of the sides of the dollhouse.
--written by KrystelClaire
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