Synopsis: Set in the near future, this film focuses on Arnold Mosk (Neil Patrick Harris), a high school student caught using drugs. When he's put in a controversial isolation program nicknamed "The Animal Room", his life is threatened. It is a classroom where no rules apply, where the troubled youth have been isolated and where survival is the name of the game. Arnold is terrorized by the Animal Room's Gang leader Doug Van Housen (Matthew Lillard), a reckless delinquent with little care for life or the rules of society. When Arnold's childhood friend Gary, a popular school athlete, tries to save him all involved are caught in a cycle of violence bringing the film to a near-apocalyptic conclusion.