FORGE trailer 10.16 from 500 Cuts on Vimeo.

Paul, a recently fired chef, decides to check on his older brother, John, after an explosion at the research facility where John works.  Paul arrives at the family cabin and learns that John is holed-up in a hidden underground lab, and to complicate matters, Paul’s sketchy younger brother Jimmy is there hiding from loan sharks.  Paul rebukes Jimmy and reaches out to John whose history of mental illness dates back to the death of their father.

A visit from lab officials tells Paul that John was let go from the lab months before and may be working with stolen technology.  In an effort to help John stabilize his mental health, Paul agrees to connect with the technology to improve its ability to make decisions.

When Paul’s dreams come to life, he pleads with John to shut the system down only to find that John is farther gone than he originally thought, and that John’s intentions for the mind-reading tech are deeply rooted in his madness.