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Synopsis:

Somerset State Correctional Hospital is where the system buries the minds it cannot fix. Tucked away in the freezing isolation of rural Pennsylvania, it is a dead end for the forgotten.

For Dr. Elias Thorne, his first day as a staff psychiatrist was supposed to be a fresh start.

But from the moment he arrives, Elias realizes that Somerset’s decaying walls hold something far more dangerous than its inmates. It starts with an ancient locked safe in his superior’s office, then deepens when a veteran maintenance worker is driven to a trembling panic at the mere mention of a location that doesn't exist on any official record: The Lower Ward.

Driven by a clinical curiosity that quickly borders on obsession, Elias discovers a hand drawn blueprint made by a catatonic patient. Its focus is Cell 701—a room hidden in the subterranean dark.

As the ventilation shafts echo with an unnatural "silence" and a routine therapy session plunges him into total darkness with a patient who has suddenly become a predator, Elias is forced to confront a terrifying reality.

He didn't just take a job at Somerset. He stepped into a nightmare. And the deeper he descends, the harder it will be to get out alive.

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