His final recollection is of being seized; college student Sigma wakes to discover he is confined in a compound alongside eight unknowns. The detainees are quickly told that escape requires participation in the 'Nonary Game'—an intricate test of faith and treachery, where choosing whom to trust determines survival. Compounding the tension, any nascent confidence among participants is undermined when they learn that the orchestrator of their ordeal could be one of them in this cruel and unpredictable setting as the clock ticks relentlessly down.