On New Year's Eve, Jason Cox struggles to get a promised bonus from his ruthless boss to pay his mother's overdue ICU bill, which threatens her life if unpaid by midnight. When Jason demands the bonus, the boss humiliates him and threatens to use his mother’s condition to control him. Suddenly, the power cuts off and a new figure, calling himself The Rat, takes over, enforcing brutal new rules: employees must survive a deadly game to keep their jobs and livelihoods. Jason refuses the game’s cruel demands and faces immediate elimination, while the power struggle intensifies, leaving his mother’s fate and his own uncertain.