Elsa (Sonya Walger) is hired to track down a young woman named Jessica (Hayley Erin) before she crosses the Canadian border. She is hampered by a lack of information from her boss (Tony Amendola) and also by the recent diagnosis of ALS. The closer she gets to Jessica, the more she realizes this is not a simple retrieval, but rather a matter of life and catastrophic death.
So this is basically "what if Plague Dogs but human woman" and I don't know how I feel about it. Is this even horror? Considering that most people are pretending so hard that Covid was a temporary inconvenience, it seems hallucinatory to suggest that we would spend any kind of time or money, much less a trained team, on contact tracing.
This movie was assuredly not for me. I kept getting annoyed by Jessica's "innocence" around her pursuit. Like, girl, you woke up in a secure facility to see someone in hazmat gear. Nobody puts that on because you're accused of a crime. This is like the people who kept whining about "muh freedoms!" because they couldn't go to Applebee's for a couple of weeks while literal truckloads of bodies were overwhelming hospital resources. Fuck that selfish shit.
This is only available for rent, currently, but you shouldn't watch it anyway. Watch Outbreak or Contagion instead.
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