The Realm

REBECCA is a frustrated mother of two contending with rude coworkers, an even ruder boss, and her gambling, alcoholic husband PETER. Rebecca fights constantly with Peter to the dismay of her two children COURTNEY, 17, and KELVIN, 10. After a particularly nasty fight, Peter leaves and doesn’t come back. Rebecca is sadly informed that Peter has passed away. Grieving, Rebecca decides to take the children to her parents’ house for a vacation. But, upon arrival, something seems amiss. While searching for her parents, Rebecca stumbles across a neighbor, MRS. JARKOVSKI, beating her husband to death with a shovel and behaving strangely. Rebecca takes the kids and flees, realizing something is very, very wrong. Rebecca runs into a mysterious man called MARO and picks him up. Maro hints that he knows more than he’s letting on, but doesn’t explain what he knows, insisting Rebecca needs to figure it out on her own. They group come across a Walmart and seek food and refuge there before things start to go awry. Customers begin behaving violently and terrifying beasts attack the store. The group is ultimately saved by RILEY, Rebecca’s sister, who Maro seems to know and trust. When Kelvin is separated from the group, Riley stays back to save him. Maro, Rebecca and Courtney back it back home and manage to contact a group of fellow survivors, whom they head off the meet in the morning. The trio must trek through a dark forest to their location, but along the way an already injured Courtney falls out of sight and they must leave her behind. She struggles to fight alone in the forest. Rebecca is reunited with Kelvin whom she finds wandering alone in the forest. When they reach the coordinates given by the other survivors they find themselves at Rebecca’s place of work. When confronting her boss she realizes that no one knows her and it’s as if she never worked there at all. A beast attacks the office and Rebecca and Maro are forced to fight it off and Maro tells Rebecca she must save the coworker she despises the most, revealing that the key is forgiveness. An injured Maro explains that all of this chaos is in Rebecca’s head and that she is in control of her own destiny. After defeating the beast and portal opens and Peter comes through it. Rebecca forgives Peter and goes through the portal. Upon waking, she finds herself being stretchered away from a crash site, having only been unconscious for an hour and never having made it to her parents’ house at all. In the hospital Rebecca wakes and is greeted by Kelvin. However, when Rebecca asks for her daughter, she is told that she hasn’t awakened. It is revealed that Rebecca is seemingly still trapped in her own realm.