George is studying at university when the police interrupt him with news that his parents died in a car crash. Only his little brother Joey survived. They return to their family home which is now empty. That night, George hears a noise and finds Joey missing, being led away by a mysterious figure. George receives a mysterious phone call instructing him to go to an abandoned building for a ransom exchange - he must pick up a handgun and shoot the person in the next room to get his brother back.