The Room

Sam awakens in a frigid, metal-walled chamber, a long streak of blood snaking from the doorway and leading to a mangled body. The corpse is her boyfriend, lying in the room’s corner. Though terrified, she somehow recognizes where she is and realizes the ominous intercom voice belongs to her father. She remains imprisoned in the room as punishment, with no clear idea of when she might be freed. Hours bleed into days, days into weeks. Inside the room, Sam grips a tenuous connection to her nine-year-old sister through a latch set into the bottom of the door, which helps keep her mind occupied and prevents reoccurring memories of her late mother’s death from surfacing. Meanwhile, the voice orders her to take white pills that send her to sleep. Gradually, Sam pieces together fragments of her past and begins to understand why she stays locked away, for what lies inside her cannot be let free.