In the 23rd century, most citizens on Earth are living below the poverty line, this is why many
people end up accepting very dangerous jobs like mining, military, and space exploration.
To travel through the universe, explorers use a system called "Slipstream", which turns matter
into a data signal and transmits it to a fixed coordinate. All the volunteers are given an APEX
device fused into their nervous system in order to use this slipstream. Newbie Whit is getting ready
to start a new job at the West Coast Search and Rescue Team. Before he leaves, he and his pregnant
wife Lisa share a sweet moment together, and Lisa gifts him a picture of them with a loving note as
a lucky charm before kissing him goodbye. Later at the West Coast Slipstream Division, the team gives
Whit a very warm welcome. The captain makes most of the team head out, then right in front of Whit,
he begins asking Dave about the jump he's made because he's noticed something weird
in the logs that may indicate a dirty jump. Dave just dismisses it as a silly mistake. Suddenly,
an announcement comes through saying squads 14 to 28 must get ready to jump. The captain puts
up a video feed of the jump and notices how the teams are going blind into a mining site.
After just a few seconds, only a few team members come back, and to everyone's shock,
they're screaming in pain and horror, not to mention the blood dripping on their faces. An
alarm is raised because apparently quarantine has been breached, and when the doctors try
to help the bleeding rescuers, one of them starts to shoot everyone. The captain, Dave,
and Whit try to leave the room, but they find the door locked because of protocol. They watch on the
screen how little by little every team member that came back becomes violent and attacks each other,
soon the bullets are piercing the walls and almost hit the trio. For the sake of their safety,
they have no choice but to jump, even if the jump only mentions a location called Infini that is
off the grid. Dave doesn't want to go because that's where the crazy ones just came from,
but soon the lockdown protocol begins filling the room with gas, meaning they must jump or die. For
some reason, the captain's APEX cannot decipher the code, so only Whit and Dave manage to jump
while the captain is left behind to die. Moments later, the East Coast central command is in
complete chaos with the news of what's happening in Infini. The chief puts together a Search and
Rescue Team and explains the situation to them: Infini is the furthest outpost in the galaxy and
is known for the worst space disaster in history where 1600 workers were killed by a very volatile
mineral that can only be found on that planet. Because of this, Infini was permanently shut down,
and a team was sent to investigate what happened. However an accident caused all the team members
to die except for one named Montoli, who painfully removed his APEX to stop headquarters from forcing
him into jumping back. Now Montoli plans to send a huge amount of a dangerous mineral to Earth,
so the team's mission is to go there to stop him. At that moment, news of what happened on the West
Coast arrive, since squads 14 to 28 had been sent to extract Montoli as well. Apparently everyone in
the West division has died except for Whit, who has been trapped in Infini for a week already
because of time dilation in space. They also think there's an airborne threat in the station. Then
the team proceeds to jump and instantly appears in Infini, finding the place in complete ruins
and freezing. The team immediately jump on the mission by assigning duties: Boxen and Jacklar
have to find Whit; Menzies, Grenich! and Kent have to look for the payload; and Mannings, Huntington,
and Captain Johanson will find the generator. As the team begins exploring, they find a huge
amount of bodies around every room and hallway. Half of them died of the freezing temperatures,
but they can't tell what killed the others. Eventually Manzies' group finds the payload and
begins working on the control panel as they wonder exactly what is powering this section of the
station. Meanwhile Johanson's group finds a dead man with weird lumps coming out of his neck that
they can't identify. Then they finally find the generator, and while Huntington starts fixing it,
Mannings goes to check the surroundings. When he enters another room, he's horrified to see
abandoned experiments using human skin and various body parts that are still hanging around. At that
moment the generator begins working, and the computer system reboots, only to be replaced
by a dark screen that asks them "who are you?" and "what are you doing here?". Getting a hunch of who
this may be, Johanson explains they're here to rescue Whit, and this causes the fans to start
blowing steam into the rooms and the station gets locked down. Mannings is locked inside the
room with the experiments and has to watch how everything unfreezes and begins dripping blood.
Suddenly Boxen's team finds a door that opens on its own to reveal Whit coming out of his hiding
spot. Afterward, Whit lifts up the locked-down protocol and the team regroups with him to hear
him out. Whit explains he had to make sure this team wasn't crazy like the others, and that the
station has become a slaughterhouse. Apparently what's behind all the deaths is some sort of
infection that is passed from person to person by blood and causes them to go berserk, which is how
all the miners killed each other. Whit has already tried to return through slipstream, but he failed
and stayed hidden in the ducts, where he blew up the external vents, killing everyone in the
station for his own protection. Huntington asks how Whit is powering the station, so Whit explains
it runs on binary codes, which he understands. This makes the team wonder if Whit can shut down
the payload, which makes Whit angry because he realizes the team was sent for the minerals,
not him. Jacklar cuts in and calms Whit down, promising to take him home if he helps them first.
Whit immediately begins working at the computer and easily finds the payload, however to shut
it down he'll need someone to go to the furnace room to force the override. Menzies volunteers,
so Johanson sends Jacklar and Grenich with him. Then Whit asks the team to look out the window,
and they discover there are dozens of windmills powering up the station. Moments later, the trio
makes it to the furnace room and activates the override for Whit while they discuss the families
that wait for them at home. Whit immediately begins working on shutting down the payload, and
Huntington can't help wondering if he's infected, but Whit swears he isn't. When Whit finally kicks
off the overriding procedure, an alarm begins ringing, and Whit asks Menzies and Grenich to turn
the valves off. The gauges aren't working and the computer warns them about an imminent meltdown,
but with Whit's careful instructions they manage to shut it all down safely. The team gets ready to
regroup but suddenly Montoli shows up and attacks Johanson with an ax. The squad immediately pushes
him away and Mannings quickly knocks Montoli down with one simple shot. Next the team tries to find
medical supplies to take care of Johanson's wounds while Jacklar and Grenich hear the commotion on
the comms, so they decide to go back while Menzies stays behind. Huntington and Whit don't want to
help Johanson because they're worried about the infection, but Mannings orders Huntington to join
them. At that moment, Montoli reveals he isn't dead and attacks Mannings, who struggles against
Montoli until he manages to blow his head. This causes Montoli's infected blood to splash all
over the place. The infection immediately begins affecting everyone, making them scream in pain and
insanity. Whit concentrates and manages to fight against the side effects before reaching for the
comms to tell Menzies to hide. Afterward, Whit runs away and jumps across a huge gap to reach
the other side of the station, only to slip and fall through several floors. For a few minutes,
Whit sees Lisa worrying back at home, but then he wakes up and discovers he's survived the fall
thanks to the infection. After throwing up, Whit hears a voice and realizes a crazy Kent is hunting
him because he blames him for the death of his teammates. A chase begins through the station as
Kent continues to insult Whit, but when he's about to finally find him, Jacklar suddenly
shows up in an absolute berserk state and attacks Kent, beating him to death. Whit stays hidden and
waits until Jacklar is gone to pick up Kent's gun. Moments later, Whit finds a laboratory
and looks for medicine for the infection, to no avail. After taking a moment to concentrate again
and fight back the violent impulses, Whit keeps looking around and finds a bunch of research that
reveals that the dangerous mineral is actually a frozen organic parasite called "Primordial Ooze".
Its bases instincts are predatory and that's why infected people go wild. Only people with
advanced emotional stability are capable of resisting the infection, otherwise it spreads
fast. This parasite wants to be the alpha cell and can replicate any organic matter they infect, so
with enough time, it could replicate a whole human being. Lastly, the man behind all this research
turns out to be Montoli. After lots of reading, Whit hears a strange noise and goes to check it
out, only to suddenly be jumped on by Menzies, who had been hiding in a closet. The two men
struggle for a while and Menzies doesn't let go of Whit until swears he isn't infected and explains
what happened. Menzies stares at the research and reaches the conclusion the entire planet is
a living entity, but only when it's thawed. The parasite isn't capable of understanding
and is just looking for the alpha among them to survive. There's no cure for the infection, their
only hope to survive is to go home. However, only Johanson and Huntington can call headquarters,
and Johanson is probably already dead. During their talk, Whit has to fight back the infection
trying to gain control again and Menzies gets suspicious, but Whit swears it's just a wound
he got when he fell. Whit and Menzies agree to go looking for Huntington and they begin discussing
how to tackle the search only to be interrupted by Mannings suddenly bursting in through the glass
door. Mannings begins attacking Menzies without mercy, so Whit points his gun at him to make him
stop. However Mannings threatens with shooting Menzies to make Whit put his gun down. Then
Mannings begins throwing a tantrum, complaining about having been sent here just to save stupid
Whit and saying that "it" can see Whit. After lots of ranting, Mannings gets ready to kill Menzies,
but Menzies and Whit remind him he's a friend and that they have families at home. Mannings says
everyone has a choice and decides to end things for himself, causing some of his blood to fall on
Menzies' face. The infection immediately starts driving him crazy, so Whit has no choice but to
shoot him before he gets aggressive. Meanwhile Huntington wanders around the station while
struggling against the infection as well. Moments later, Whi starts hallucinating and sees himself
going through a berserk rampage. He concentrates and manages to send the hallucinations away, but
his eyes are starting to get red. Afterward, he hears a voice and discovers Huntington recording a
message for his family, apparently he's resisting the infection as well. Whit points his gun at him,
asking Huntington to take him home, but Huntington ignores him until he finishes recording his
message. Then he explains he's already called headquarters, they just need to wait eight hours.
This makes Whit worry because the lab research said nobody could make it longer than two hours.
As time passes, Whit and Huntington slowly lose their minds to the infection. They start
talking nonsense and jump from one emotion to the other, including laughing like manias, screaming,
and even threatening each other while they argue. Eventually Whit gets tired of waiting and
decides to go to the medical bay alone. Meanwhile Grenich is using her medical knowledge and trying
different methods to cure herself. When she looks in the mirror, she sees some scutes growing on her
back, explaining the weird neck they saw earlier. Suddenly Jacklar shows up, revealing his arm has
weirdly mutated. He comes closer to Grenich and tries to kiss her as he promises to protect her,
but Grenich keeps him at bay because she's scared. Then Jacklar asks about their baby,
forcing Grenich to confess she had to do an abortion on herself to lose the baby
because the kid was already infected. Hearing this makes Jacklar go berserk and attack her,
but Grenich fights back. Back to Whit, he's having trouble opening a door, but Huntington
shows up and helps him. They make it to the medical bay and can tell what just happened
because the parasite shows images in their brains thanks to some sort of hive mind. Jacklar is dead,
but Grenich's still alive, so Whit asks her what they can do against the infection. Unfortunately
Grenich thinks the parasite is too smart and the only escape is death, then she says goodbye to her
mother and dies. The lack of hope causes Whit to start losing control again and his eyes go
completely red. Huntington points his gun at him, but Whit defends himself and a fight ensues. After
lots of struggling, Whit manages to run out of the room, prompting Huntington to chase him. Before
he can be found, Whit jumps into a hole with a ladder, and Huntington discovers the parasite
is on the ladder as well. After interacting with the parasite and getting his eyes fully red too,
Huntington also jumps into the hole, only to be ambushed by Whit. Another fight ensues, during
which Huntington gets even crazier, and both men exchange blows as if they were invincible.
Eventually they fall into a small pool of water and Whit manages to overpower Huntington before
tying a hose around his neck to break it and kill him. Afterward, Whit clings to Lisa's picture to
gain strength and goes to the med bay to find a scalpel and record a message for the parasite. He
explains that its technique is awful for survival because by tapping into people's hatred, the
parasite is only making them kill each other and it'll never learn anything about humanity. However
if the parasite had chosen to work together with them, they could've helped each other.
Then Whit talks about his family and how everyone here just wanted to have an honest job, causing
him to start seeing visions of the team and Lisa. With the picture still in hand, Whit finishes his
message by ending things for himself. As Whit's message plays on a loop all over the station,
the parasite begins covering all the bodies with its gooey minerals. A mysterious puddle forms with
the minerals and a human face appears on it. While this happens, Whit's blood starts coming back into
his body. Moments later, Whit wakes up without a single wound and is shocked to discover the whole
team is also alive and well. Mannings informs them the parasite is gone, and Whit checks the lab,
where he confirms all the mineral samples are gone too. The team cleans up and regroups at
the control center, but nobody knows how to explain what happened. Obviously disturbed
by the experience, they all agree to lie and say they were incapacitated for a few hours because
of pressurization. The payload is destroyed and they've rescued Whit, so the mission is completed
and they shouldn't have trouble at home convincing everyone they shouldn't return to this place. Five
minutes later, the team gets ready to slipstream back to Earth, but right before jumping, Whit sees
five humanoid forms made of minerals, and one of them has his picture. It seems the parasite
did hear his advice. Then the jump kicks in and the team makes it back to Earth, where everyone
is panicking. A group of doctors immediately surrounds them and ask them personal questions to
be sure they're sane, they also ask if they were exposed to any dangerous contaminants. The team
swears they didn't, but everyone is put through a scan anyway, and they all pass it with colors
except for Whit. The scan can't seem to read him, so the chief asks him again if he was exposed,
but Whit doesn't answer. Thankfully, the scan finally works at that moment and clears Whit
out. Then the team learns that here on Earth only 52 seconds passed. Afterward, Whit returns home to
reunite with Lisa, who immediately begins crying because they had told her Whit wasn't coming back.