A tech CEO checks into an isolated wellness retreat to cure his stress-induced blackouts and slowly realizes his somatic “therapy” with the charismatic director is erotic psychological conditioning to force him out of power.

SYNOPSIS:

Tarik Hayes, CEO of VectoryTech, is plagued by insomnia, panic, and bradycardia, resulting in an embarrassing collapse during his keynote speech. As a last resort, he goes to Still Pines, an isolated wellness retreat owned by Finnton Recovery. He’s desperate for relief but bristles at the retreat’s new-age attitude and their rules about phones, meds, and mandatory participation. He’s suspicious from the start, mapping out the retreat center and counting his pills.

The director, Dr. Sera Corvin, singles him out for intensive “somatic therapy.” Sessions escalate from breathing exercises to explicit sexual contact, all framed as therapy, and Tarik sleeps better than he has in years. The more he submits to Sera’s voice and touch, the harder it becomes to make decisions about his company or even imagine going home.

Using his tech skills, Tarik accesses the network and breaks into a staff server room. There he discovers he’s been tagged as a “VIP” client with five objectives requested by outside stakeholders, including resigning as CEO and never returning from Still Pines. Sera’s paid to condition high-value patients to comply with the objectives of Finnton Recovery.

Tarik threatens to leave and talk, but Sera’s confident his conditioning has already trapped him at Still Pines, and no one would believe him. When Tarik tries to walk out during a snowstorm, he collapses at the property line of the retreat. Once back inside, Sera presents the collapse as proof his body is choosing to stay.

With the storm cutting off outside communication, his only remaining move is to turn Still Pines’ own tools against it. He sets up one last somatic session with Sera that will either free him from the mountain or cost him everything, but he’s willing to risk everything to expose what the retreat really does to its VIPs.

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