The film begins in a small apartment in Uruguay. A woman watches her hungry
bird and goes to take some food, but when she returns, the bird is gone.
She goes to the living room and finds her husband who seems to be lost in a daze. She gets closer
to see him clutching the poor bird tightly in his hands while the blood drips from his nose.
In the nearby apartment, we see a woman named Iris.
She is talking to her roommate and it is evident that Iris is free-spirited and lives her life
wildly. But it is revealed through the picture she hides in her room that she is a divorced mother.
Irish is getting ready for work when someone knocks at the door, her roommate informs Irish
that her daughter Tata is there. It turns out that Irish is co-parenting with her ex-husband,
Javi, but the current visit is surprising, as it’s her turn to take care of Tata.
Tata looks around the house and expresses her disappointment at her mother’s reckless
livelihood. Iris dismisses the topic and tells her daughter that she wasn’t expecting to see
her today and that she needs to get to work. With no other option, Iris reluctantly takes
Tata along on her overnight shift at a disused athletic club where she works as a security guard.
They rush to walk the few blocks while failing to notice the condition around them as the city has
broken into mayhem. The people are running around and loud sirens are heard all around the city.
Iris seems to be alone while surveying the empty area. She gives Tata a tour of her
workplace and sneaks to spill liquor in her coffee when Tata looks away
When they reach a basketball court, Iris encourages Tata to play while she goes to
her station to work. She gives her a walkie-talkie before leaving and tells her to call if she needs
her mother. She assures her that she will be watching over her through the CCTV cameras.
Iris gets to work while Tata begins to play, unbeknownst to both,
there is a hand seen pressing on the window. Back in the station, Irish smokes while looking
at the monitors and watches her daughter play. After a while, Iris goes out to look around. The
lights suddenly go out, annoying Iris. She uses the walkie-talkie and tries to calm her scared
daughter while walking to the basement where she manages to get the electricity back on.
Tata tells her that when she is scared, she thinks about the happy time, especially when
they went to a beach with her baby brother. This upsets Iris and she ends the call.
While walking back, she notices two men fighting near a burning car. She calls the police and
goes to talk to the security guard at the nearby street. He tells her that it was just some thugs
fighting and suggests she should be careful.. She then goes to get her daughter but finds
her to be missing from the court. She spots a man running around the club and he continues
to run towards her in a zombie-like condition with blood all over his face. Iris knocks him
down before he could hurt her and runs away. She locks the man on the lower floor and peeks
outside to see the complete mayhem broken on the street, where the
security guard from before lies lifeless. She goes back to the station and manages to
find her daughter on the monitor. She begins to break down and looks at the tattoo on her
arm that says Nico, her son’s name, and the date of his birth, and begins to sob.
She soon composes herself and then calls the landline phone in the room that Tata is in.
Her daughter tells her that she got scared seeing someone break in and went to hide.
Iris decides to go get her daughter when she senses someone coming and hides under the desk.
Back in the room where Tata is hiding, someone begins to bang violently on the
door. Tata panics and rushes to hide in the corner but someone grabs her.
Meanwhile, the same unhinged man manages to get inside and begins looking for Iris.
He is about to reach the desk that Iris is hiding under when a cat comes in and distracts the man.
Iris gets out of hiding and notices the man being lost in a trance, frozen in that state.
She rushes out of there and begins looking for her daughter through the cameras. She finds
Tata still hiding in one of the rooms and then goes to watch the footage of the violent man as
well as the other rioters outside. By examining video footage of the violent attacks, Iris notes
that each rampage is followed by 32 seconds where the infected become calm and docile.
She gets out of the room to rescue Tata and begins to creep across a locker room. She manages to
get to the hallway when suddenly, another zombie attacks her and pushes her into a shower stall.
Iris manages to get him off her and runs out of the stall. She reaches the pool
area as the zombie follows her. There, a man named pulls her into the pool with him and
the zombie also dives in. The zombie beats around in the water and then goes still.
They get out of the pool, and the man introduces himself as Luis. He explains that infected people
can't swim and they can identify them through the red scars on their palms.
He tells her that he was on his way to the hospital after his pregnant wife Mimi went
into labor, but their ambulance crashed outside the athletic club. Luis offers to help Iris
find Tata in exchange for Iris helping him birth the baby. He takes her to his wife
and tells her that he has already prepared by reading everything about giving birth.
They reach an office and when he removes the curtain, Iris is baffled to find the pregnant
woman to be infected. She tries to flee, but Luis has locked the door. He begs her to help him as
he is positive that his wife will recover soon. Although Mimi is restrained to a chair, Iris is
reluctant to help due to the threat Mimi poses. Luis then reveals he already met Tata,
but threatens that he won’t tell Iris where she is unless she helps him deliver the baby. Turns out,
it was Luis who grabbed Tata earlier. Iris gets enraged and threatens him with the
sharp object, Luis attacks her, but he releases his hands when Iris finally agrees to help.
Luis instructs Iris to help take Mimi to a safer location, so they begin to drag the
wheelchair upstairs, all the while, telling her how he ended up there.
One night, he suddenly woke up to his wife being infected by the virus. She
was trying to hurt her pregnant belly when Luis managed to stop her in time.
He has been keeping her tied since then. He also adds that yesterday, he got attacked by a zombie
and accidentally threw the man into the water, discovering that they can’t swim. He tells Iris
that the boat can take all of them to safety, and offers a place for both Iris and Tata.
On their way, they find Javi lying on the bottom of a drained pool, badly injured. Javi mentions
Nico and tells Iris that it was not her fault and stops blaming herself on their son’s death.
Javi dies and Iris comforts him saying that he will soon meet Nico.
Iris doesn’t get time to mourn as Mimi’s water breaks and before they could get her out,
several zombies sense their presence and start trying to get into the room. Iris
takes the car keys from Javi and distracts the zombies through the smoke explosive
device she had packed earlier with Tata to play. While hiding from the chaos, Iris notices a female
zombie holding a knife and getting closer to Mimi. Iris screams and distracts the zombie before Luis
comes to the rescue, smacking the zombie down. They then take Mimi to an unoccupied room and tie
her to the bed. Soon, Mimi gives birth to a baby boy named Raul, and Luis, in hopes to revive his
wife from the infection, gives the baby in her hands. Iris gets scared for the baby and warns
him as the 32-second window runs out. Suddenly, the lights go out.
Iris turns on a flashlight and they find the bed empty. They look around and find them in
the corner of the room. Mimi is holding the baby with full force and refuses to give up her dark
intention on the child. Luis desperately pleads for his wife to realize what she is doing. But
with no choice left, Luis tearfully shoots Mimi. He is overtaken by grief as he holds his son.
He tells Iris that Tata is in the boiler room. She takes Luis’s gun,
and the keys to his boat before rushing out. However, when she arrives at the boiler room,
she finds Tata’s bag on the floor along with a lifeless man and notices a young
girl’s body in the furnace. Thinking her daughter to be dead, a distraught
Iris prepares to follow Tata with Luis’s gun. But suddenly she hears a voice and follows to find
Tata hiding in a safe room. After they reunite, Tata tells her mother that Luis helped her hide,
and then the other man came there with his daughter and helped her as well. But
he got attacked by many zombies and ended up dying, they also threw his daughter into the
furnace, while Tata stayed hidden. They run out to the corridor to exit
the building but it is blocked by a herd of zombies. Soon the 32-second window starts,
and for some reason, they slowly walk out of there. Just when they get to the end, the time
runs out and they are chased by the infected. They get to Javi’s car but as they drive,
the zombies surround the car and begin smashing the windows. Then it's shown
that they tricked the zombies and instead of taking the car, they used a manhole to get
into the sewers. They find Luis there, counting his last breaths. He tells Iris where to find
his boat and asks her to look after his son. Just then, the same infected man from before
arrives there who has been watching them on the CCTV. Irish tells Tata to run and
the man viciously beats Iris to the ground. Instead of running, Tata waits for the man to
freeze and then saves Iris by killing the infected man with a staple gun.
The three of them escape to Luis’s boat. However, at the end of the film, we see the infected
people who had drowned, coming back to life. If you want to watch more on Movie Shortens,
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