Synopsis/Details
After accidents at a bio-lab, a city’s sewers are crawling with thousands of human/animal hybrids. Officer John McKenna, part of an elite SWAT team, is sent in to exterminate them, but many escape into the city. McKenna has serious qualms about his task. As an animal lover, he balks at being part of the slaughter - to the disgust of his boss Captain White. In a foolhardy attempt to clear the sewers, White orders them to be flooded with petroleum and torched – with disastrous consequences.
Later McKenna finds a vulnerable female hybrid, feral but hauntingly beautiful, shivering in a basement, and makes a snap decision to hide her from the authorities, a decision that will change his life forever. Taking her home, he attempts to gain her trust and make her more human, buying her clothes and teaching her English. His estranged wife is convinced he is having an affair with Ayla, as he now calls her, but he protests his innocence.
A neighbor alerts the police and McKenna and Ayla flee to an abandoned shack in woods outside the city where they survive simply for many months.
Captain White finally tracks them down and McKenna is devastated when Ayla is killed by a police sniper.
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