THE SHORTEST DISTANCE BETWEEN TWO POINTS → Rose Byrne, Armie Hammer, Jaimie Alexander (for @sweetlookingbrazilian) | The Glitch Mob (feat. Swan), Between Two Points
Ever wonder what would have happened if one of your chromosomes had been tweaked a certain way or if your genes had been spliced together differently? In the not too distant future, it is this question that has pushed mankind to the next step in the fight against disease. In an underground lab in the heart of Washington D.C., scientists in the applied sciences division of the government have found a way to replace lab animals with genetically perfect human beings engineered in test tubes. These individuals exist for the sole purpose of experimentation: to help find the cure to cancer, test out theories on nature versus nurture, develop counter measures against class A level 4 bioterrorism viral agents - hell, even solve the problem of the common cold!
Armie Hammer has never known life outside the four walls of the secret base. His father (Anthony Hopkins), the scientist who made the homo novus break through, has been overly paranoid about safety since the suspicious car crash that killed his mother when Armie was just a baby. Much to his father’s chagrin, Armie has no interest in saving the world one centrifuge at a time. Now in his mid twenties, all Armie wants to do is see the world - watch a sunset, go out to a movie, row crew. When one of the science experiments sets off a chain of emergency alarms, Armie spots two of the subjects - Jaimie Alexander, an angry young woman who feels the injustices of their situation too strongly, and Rose Byrne, her carefree friend whose fear of the outside world is outweighed only by her fear that Jaimie will get herself killed if she doesn’t tag along - making their escape and realizes that it’s the perfect chance for a little adventure of his own. With no idea about how to make it on the outside, the three of them must dodge men in the highest positions of power who are determined to bring them back to the lab by any means necessary while navigating a crash course on what it means to be normal. But the longer they spend in the real world, the worse Jaimie and Rose fare. With no way of knowing what tests were being run on them when they escaped, there’s no way to help them. When Armie starts to feel sick too, he realizes that there might have been another reason his dad kept him sheltered for so many years. Now with their bodies behaving like bombs counting down to one big detonation, they must shake up the world and expose the entire program before time runs out for everyone.