A mysterious gas starts infecting people,
turning their worst nightmares into fuel for rage. One family gets caught in this chaos as the
regrets of their past continue to destroy their lives. Giacomo enjoys some private time in bed while
watching a model from his phone. His father barges in, making him turn away
to hide his excitement. Already aware of what he was doing, the older
man tells him they have a job to do before leaving. As he prepares, his father constantly sends
messages on his phon
e, urging him to hurry. This clearly frustrates Giacomo. Adding to his frustrations is when he has
to pry open a manhole cover under the heavy rain. His father merely watches as Giacomo slips
and falls before getting the job done. Still, Giacomo heads into the sewer alone
where he spots something slimy on the floor. The sewage water suddenly boils, releasing
gas that chokes him. As he struggles, a woman who looks like the
model he was watching approaches him. Concerned and impatient, his father
calls
out to Giacomo, mocking him for taking too long. However, his son ignores this as the mysterious
woman kisses him and whispers to his ear. Soon, his father lays dead as Giacomo shivers
in the rain, covered in black sludge. Elsewhere, Thomas drives a mother and daughter
to the hotel, keeping to himself as the girl complains about how slow he was. The next morning, Thomas watches his paraplegic
daughter, Barbara, exercise her legs until she gives up. After that, she shares breakfast with her
brother, Enrico, while Thomas learns about the incident with Giacomo from the newspaper. Their breakfast is interrupted when they hear
a fight ensuing from their neighbor’s place. Ignoring this, Thomas hears his alarm, notifying
him that he has to take Barbara to school. He asks his son where he’ll be for the day,
but the man just leaves. On their way to school, They witness a teenager
trying to kick a homeless old man off the area. Another woman, Alice, defends the old man
and Barbara cusses a
t the teen to also defend the vagrant. Infuriated, the teen marches to the girl but
Thomas tells him to back off. As Thomas and Barbara near the school grounds,
he reminds her that they have physical therapy later. Her friend then takes Barbara to class, leaving
Thomas with her mother, who shows him the property they bought. Seeing him impressed, she invites him for
dinner. Meanwhile, Enrico tries to shoplift a bottle
of liquor from a store, but an old woman tells him to put it back. Frustrated,
he purchases it properly while
mumbling to himself. At the counter, he sees his father on the
other side with another woman, so he tries to hide from him. Still, Thomas notices him, though he doesn’t
go over to check on him. Thomas visits Ferrini, whom he works for as
a caregiver. The bed-ridden man tells him he’s glad he
visited but his roommate complains about how whiny the patient is when Thomas isn’t around. After his roommate leaves, Ferrini notices
his caregiver looking worried. Thomas ju
st mentions that he has a lot to
worry about. Ferrine comments that he still has his health,
job, and kids, so he should be grateful, even if the past seems better now. Just then, Thomas’ alarm blares, prompting
him to leave. While outside his patient’s room, Thomas
bangs his head on the door in frustration over the next meager jobs he has to do to
survive. He then proceeds to do house chores, struggling
to get things done to keep his family afloat. During this, his son sits alone when a basketb
all
hits his head. A group of men ask him to pass the ball back
but he instead kicks it away and starts recording them. This riles them up, so they chase him. Enrico hides in a store, then steals a mannequin,
and sets it up with firecrackers in an abandoned swimming pool. He records the explosion on his phone and
sends it to a chat group. He admires his work and the comments on it,
but pauses when he sees his late mother on his phone wallpaper. A security guard finds him and asks him to
leave, b
ut the troubled man belittles him instead. Seeing the guard feel sullen, Enrico leaves
satisfied. The man then spends time with Martha, an older
woman for hire. After their tryst, she checks on him so he
shows the videos of the angry group that chased him. The motherly woman asks what his father thinks
of this, but Enrico replies that someone who broke a family has no right to tell him what
to do. Right now, he only cares about his sister. He then tries to flirt with Martha, but she
commands him
to take a bath. Elsewhere, Thomas naps on a sofa while the
news covers a violent murder. His alarm wakes him up but puts it on snooze. However, the yelling and fighting from the
neighbors house keeps him awake, so he decides to intervene. He knocks on their door and asks about the
noise. The neighbor apologetically explains that
his wife has violent depression, but Thomas spots the wound on his head and barges in
to check things out. To his horror, he sees the neighbor’s wife
stabbing the floor
with ooze dripping from her face. Thomas recoils in shock, so his neighbor ushers
him out. Meanwhile, Enrico prepares to shower in Martha’s
home when he notices gas coming out from the sink. Curious, he smells it but coughs afterwards. Later, Thomas watches his daughter’s physical
therapy, though he shares to the doctor his worries that Barbara is giving up on healing
her legs. The doctor assures him that it’s normal
for kids to seem that way, though she admits that there’s no progress so far.
The woman then complains that this wouldn’t
have happened if someone didn’t drive with a headache. This surprises Thomas, so he asks her to confirm
what she said. Instead, the doctor waves it off and urges
him to stay strong for Barbara too. Enrico soon goes to their old home and lays
down in his parent’s room. He tears up, missing his mother when a bloody
hand suddenly grabs him. He bolts up but only finds a model hand on
the bed. During dinner, Thomas gets pissed at Enrico
constantly tapping o
n his bowl. He yells that if he doesn’t like their food,
he should cook next time. However, his son just sarcastically praises
the food and throws it aside before leaving. While she takes a bath later, Barbara asks
her father if he loves her brother, given that they always fight. Thomas says he does but adds that his son
doesn’t know when to stop causing trouble. Unbeknownst to them, Enrico is listening by
the door, so he barges in to complain about his father’s words. Thomas takes him outside t
o keep him from
scaring his sister but Enrico demands that he ought to guide him instead of scowling
at him all day. However, Thomas just tells him to go to his
room. The son admonishes how he’s always blamed
for everything, even for his father’s failures. With that, Enrico blames Thomas for his mother’s
passing before storming off. Despite this, Thomas goes through the night
and tucks his daughter to bed, though he notices a drawing of the family on a foggy window
with the son crossed out. Thom
as then checks up on Ferrini and picks
up his salary. However, he points out that he gave him too
much, but his patient tells him to swallow his pride and take it. Unbeknownst to him, Enrico goes to Martha,
seeking comfort. However, she rejects him since she has another
client. She gently tells him that she’s not what
he needs before shutting the door on him. Heartbroken, the man weeps and curls up on
the floor. On the same night, Thomas proceeds with his
job as a driver when a car speeds in fro
nt of him, causing him to hit the brakes hard. He pauses in horror as he sees the sticker
drawing of a family on the car, similar to the one he saw on his daughter’s window. After dropping off his passenger, Thomas checks
an old family photo on his phone and confirms that their car had the same sticker. Later, his supervisor tells him he’s suspended
due to his passenger complaining about the incident. He defends that he avoided another car, but
his superior tells him there’s no reported plate nu
mber or witnesses to corroborate this Thomas pleads with his superior, saying he
has two kids to care for but the man doesn’t budge. With that, the father throws a fit. Mourning over losing one of his jobs, Thomas
watches his daughter sleep until his alarm wakes her up. She greets him happily, saying she had a good
dream, but her father places her on the wheelchair and coldly pushes her to the exercise bars
despite her wishing to have breakfast first. The moment she pulls herself up, Thomas take
s
the wheelchair away. She struggles to stay up and begs for the
chair, but instead, her father spitefully accuses her of getting too comfortable with
her condition. He continues muttering how her condition drives
him mad enough to kill someone, but he snaps out of it when Barbara falls. Guilty, he takes her into his arms, tearfully
apologizing. Barbara forgives him, but requests to have
breakfast and make amends with Enrico. Over breakfast, Enrico cheerfully talks with
his sister, but hearing h
im this way distracts Thomas enough that he spills milk. He resentfully offers the mug to Enrico, who
rejects it at first, but Barbara urges him to take it. She then requests that Enrico joins them on
their way to school. Humoring the kid, Thomas drives Enrico to
school along with Barbara. During this, the news on the radio announces
more gruesome murders happening all over the city. This upsets Barbara, so she asks Thomas to
turn it off. However, the man's mind wanders off upon hearing
the news
, prompting Enrico to switch the radio off instead. Finally, their father snaps out of it and
continues driving. Despite his sister insisting on taking him
to school, Enrico decides to skip classes. On his way, he bumps into his friend, Gianlu. The man is glad to see him back, but the troubled
man says he’s leaving since he was only there to make his sister happy. Disappointed, Gianlu walks off, but Enrico
offers to skip class with him. The two spend the day goofing off and even
break into the a
bandoned swimming pool. There, Gianlu asks if he blew up the mannequin
for attention, but Enrico says he doesn’t actually know. When his friend asks about his family, Enrico
dodges the topic and just asks him to record a video. The troubled man devours a bag of chips then
throws up in the pool, shocking his friend. Enrico then urges him to do the same but he
refuses. This starts a fight between the two, with
Gianlu lamenting on what Enrico has turned into. Still, he offers to talk about his frie
nd’s
troubles, but Enrico remains quiet about it. Meanwhile, Thomas goes to the store near where
his accident happened, hoping to see footage of his drive yesterday. To his confusion, he finds that there was
no car that sped through in front of him. The man assisting him comments that he’s
not surprised about this, given the rumors about a gas emanating from sewers during the
rain, allegedly causing hallucinations. Because of this, Thomas researches the rumored
gas while accompanying his daughte
r in her physical therapy. He finds one man’s post on social media,
so he sends him a message, hoping to talk about the events. On their drive home, they discover that the
homeless man near their building is dead. As Thomas checks what happened, Alice mutters
that only an animal could’ve harmed him so cruelly. When the two arrive home, Barbara screams
upon seeing gas coming out of the tub and the sinks. Thomas covers them and rushes to Ferrini,
only to find the bed empty and filled with black sl
udge. Suddenly, Ferrini’s roommate emerges, covered
in sludge. He mutters how Ferrini’s last words were
Thomas’ name before sitting on the patient’s bed. Horrified, Thomas scrambles away. In the abandoned pool, Enrico and Gianlu hide
as they plot to steal the security guard’s gun. However, Gianlu negotiates to steal his radio
instead. With this, Enrico approaches the guy to distract
him, but when the guard turns, he’s horrified to find him covered in sludge. The guard then holds the intruder at
gunpoint,
making Enrico freeze. Just then, an unaware Gianlu runs behind the
guard to steal his radio, but ends up getting shot. The guard shoots him again, finishing Gianlu
off. Terrified, Enrico pleads as the guard aims
his weapon at him. Instead, however, the man shoots himself. The horrified man mourns over his friend before
calling his father for help. Despite his desperate pleas, however, he hears
his father telling him that he doesn’t care about him. In reality, Thomas is holed up in the
bathroom
with his phone far from him. Feeling abandoned, Enrico gazes at the guard’s
gun thoughtfully just as the rain starts. At home, Thomas closes a window when he spots
a woman peering at him from the opposite building. A hand appears and bangs the woman’s head
against their window, and the breaking glass triggers a deafening car alarm from below. This causes Thomas to twist in agony until
the sound stops. He peers through the window again, only to
find the curtains on the opposite building
closed. His phone then dings, leading to Thomas to
finally discover that he missed his son’s calls. Ultimately, Enrico sends him a message, declaring
his freedom. Before he can process this message, someone
knocks on the door. Scared, Thomas grabs a screwdriver before
checking, only to find that nobody was outside. Instead, he finds writing on the walls. Just then, he hears someone enter his home,
and when Thomas checks, he finds a trail of black sludge leading inside. He follows it to a room an
d freezes upon seeing
what’s inside. Elsewhere, Enrico goes to Martha’s place
and follows a woman’s voice calling to him, unaware that his lady companion has drowned
in the bathroom. When the man enters the bedroom, he sees his
deceased mother, Christina, on the bed, asking him to join her. The same apparition appears for Thomas, who
shivers in Christina’s arms. Each of their hallucinations whisper sweet
things to them, but afterwards, the woman calls them failures. She tells Enrico that he’s a
failure because
his father abandoned him. Meanwhile, the apparition tells Thomas that
his son broke their family. The apparition then urges them on what to
do to set themselves free. With this, Enrico holds his gun and Thomas
grips his screwdriver, with both having black liquid flows from their eyes. As this happens, their hallucinations smile
at them maniacally. Years back, Thomas was busy at work when his
phone alarmed, prompting him to get his pastries from the oven. He served it to Enrico an
d Gianlu before joining
them to play their video game. A tired Christina arrived home, so Thomas
comforted her. She told him that her mother was looking for
a chef for her restaurant, so she recommended him. However, Thomas pointed out that he already
had a job. Her phone chimed as it was time to pick Barbara
up from her classmate’s party. She complained that she had a headache, hoping
that her husband could take over. However, Thomas reasoned that he had a deadline
to finish, so Christina agree
d to do it. Upon hearing this, Enrico insisted on going
with her. While their son prepared to leave, the mother
noticed her husband looking stressed, so she held his hand in comfort. On their way to the party, Christina struggled
due to her headache, so Enrico offered to take over. Persistent, the mother refused, though she
commented that her son was like his father who liked to take charge. Soon, they picked up Barbara, who insisted
on taking some balloons home. During the drive, Enrico started
smoking out
of boredom and decided to pop one of the balloons to scare his sleeping sister. The pop startled everyone and made Christina
swerve, crashing into another car. After the crash, rain started pouring, washing
Christina’s blood into the drainage. From there, the black sludge bursted out. In the present, Enrico heads to the apartment
and walks into a hallway filled with balloons, filling his mind with his guilt. Suddenly, his father stabs him from behind
and runs. He wails and pulls the
screwdriver off. Afterward, Enrico charges into their apartment
with his gun. Thomas deflects the weapon and tackles his
son to the floor, holding him down as the hallucination whispers to punish his son. Hearing the commotion, Barbara wheels herself
to her bedroom door but finds it locked. With no choice, she slams on the door, shouting
for them. During the struggle, Thomas breaks his son’s
hand and takes the gun. He aims it at Enrico’s head but his phone
chimes, distracting him long enough fo
r his son to escape into the elevator. Meanwhile, someone opens Barbara’s door
and she wheels herself out. The teen who attacked the homeless man days
before appears, threatening her. Luckily, Alice appears and ends him, allowing
Barbara to escape into the elevator. At the parking lot, Enrico hides from his
father, only for Thomas to yank him from behind. The man holds him at gunpoint, but Barbara
cries for them to stop. The men are stunned to see her standing in
her attempt to save them, but sh
e falls back down. Still, she crawls towards them, cursing at
them for ruining their family. Guilty, the men hold Barbara’s hands to
apologize just as a disfigured, sludge-ridden form of Christina drags itself towards them. Instead of being afraid, Thomas reaches out
to her, but the figure melts, unable to take hold of their minds anymore. The father and son then gaze at each other
when tears flow from their eyes, washing off the darkness that infected them. Soon, the family walks out of the apa
rtment. Amidst the chaos that ravaged their city,
the trio embrace one another, treasuring what they still have instead of fixating on the
days they lost.
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