The Compliance Cascade

In the shadow of a landmark Social Security disability appeal, a charismatic psychology professor recruits five rejected claimants for a secret experiment on systemic obedience. As the subjects relive the humiliation of denial through escalating role-play, the line between simulation and atrocity dissolves. What begins as a study of institutional power spirals into a series of ritualistic murders, each staged to mirror the bureaucratic cruelty that first broke them. Every victim is a stand-in for the system that said no. Every killer is a soul society refused to see.