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A tropical holiday turns into a horrific nightmare when a family visits a secluded beach that’s somehow causing them to age rapidly – reducing their entire lives into a single day.
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Old Video Summary
Old Plot Summary and Synopsis
Married couple Guy and Prisca travel to a tropical resort with their young children Trent and Maddox as a final family vacation before they divorce.
On the advice of the resort’s manager, the family visits a secluded beach by a nature preserve. The beach is also visited by rapper Mid-Size Sedan, surgeon Charles and his family of wife Chrystal, young daughter Kara, and mother Agnes, and married couple Jarin and Patricia.
Tragedy strikes the group’s vacation when the body of the Mid-Size Sedan’s female companion is discovered, which is followed by Agnes suddenly dying.
Strange events soon occur, including the three children becoming teenagers. The group realizes that the beach is rapidly aging them, resulting in their health deteriorating. They also notice that at least one member of each family has an underlying medical condition.
Efforts to leave result in the members of the group blacking out and waking up on the beach.
Amid the group struggling to find a way off the beach, Trent and Maddox discover the notebook of a previous traveler, along with indications of them being watched by an unknown individual.
The attempts to leave grow tenser when Charles’ worsening schizophrenia leads to him killing Mid-Size Sedan.
Jarin and Kara perish during their escape attempts, while Patricia and Chrystal die from their medical conditions becoming exacerbated. Charles eventually attacks Guy at night, but Prisca slashes him with a rusted knife, causing a fatal infection.
As the night winds down, an elderly Guy and Prisca make amends before dying moments apart from each other.
With only the now-adult Maddox and Trent remaining by the next morning, Trent revisits a secret message given to him by the resort manager’s nephew. Trent realizes the message is connected to an underwater coral passage that will allow him and Maddox to not lose consciousness while leaving the beach, prompting them to start swimming through the coral.
After the siblings fail to emerge from the water, a resort employee who monitors them reports that the entire group has died.
It is revealed that the resort has been conducting clinical trials for new medical drugs, with guests suffering from conditions being used as unwitting test subjects. Since the beach reduces the lives of the guests, the resort employees have been able to complete the drugs’ lifetime trials within a single day.
The resort employees move forward with luring a new group to the beach but are interrupted by the arrival of Trent and Maddox, who survived their underwater swim. Using the notebook as evidence of several guests going missing, the siblings bring the police to the resort.
Old Ending
Once the resort employees are arrested, Trent and Maddox head home to their aunt, uncertain of their future.
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The Ending Explained
The protagonists managed to survive however their fate is not going to be an easy one considering their rapid aging. They might look like adults on sight, however, they remain children legally and mentally.
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