In search of inspiration, the (rather ungifted) writer James and his wife, the daughter of a wealthy publisher, check into a luxury resort. A picnic outside the premises is followed by a tragic accident, killing a local. In the (fictional) country where the movie is set, this is punishable by death—unless James has himself cloned for a pretty penny and sends his doppelgänger to die in his stead. Brandon Cronenberg (POSSESSOR) takes this grotesque situation as a jump-off point for an equally entrancing, vexing, and perplexing hell ride conceived and shot as a down-to-the-marrow exponent of transgressive cinema. Utterly vile.