The most terrible thing in the world is not disease and death, but lies and deceit. The saddest thing about the boy in the film is that he lives in a lie, and it is precisely his most trusted and closest relatives and parents who deceive him. This is what makes him the most angry after he knows the truth at the end of the film! The plot reversal of the ending is quite novel, falling into the rut...
Introduction to the following story:
Four years ago, Eli, a boy, suffered from a strange disease of immunodeficiency and could only live in a strictly sterilized space. One day, his parents Paul Miller and Ruth Miller cut food and clothing and took Eli out of Washington, D.C., to find Dr. Horne to treat his illness...
The treatment place is located in an old building, and the interior is strictly sterilized. The nurses Barbara and Maricela are assisting Dr. Horn in his work. The Millers also live in the building to accompany them...
On the second day of the stay, Dr. Horn performed a minor operation on Eli, injecting a virus into Eli's bone marrow to repair Eli's defective gene...
During the treatment, Hailey, a little girl nearby, chatted with Eli through the glass door and window, saying that Dr. Horn was weird and the room was weird... Hailey also said that she didn't like his name because of Eli's letters The spelling is reversed and it means Lie...
Since then, Eli has often seen female ghosts in the dark, which Dr. Horn said was the result of hallucinations caused by the side effects of taking drugs...
Eli's "hallucinations" are getting worse, but Dr. Horn insists that he continue to take his medication, saying he may get worse before he gets better...
Hailey told Eli that Perry, who used to live in the treatment room, also called the room haunted, so Horn gave Perry a third stage of treatment, and Perry disappeared from then on...
From then on, Eli knew that Dr. Horne had been lying to himself...
After Ruth learned that the treatment was life-threatening, she felt that Paul was deceiving herself and insisted on taking Eli away... At the same time, Eli sneaked into Horn's medical office and peeked at Perry and other three patients. The treatment files found that all three died in the third stage due to treatment failure...
After knowing the truth, Ruth wanted to take Eli away, but there was nothing she could do... And Eli found out through the photos that Horn was not a doctor at all, but a nun...
Only after Eli fled into the cellar did he find that he was not sick at all and would not be allergic to the outside world. His parents had been deceiving him...
In order to save herself, Eli tried to flee, but was forcibly taken back by her rude father Paul and handed over to Sister Horn for the third stage of treatment, namely reading the Bible, pouring holy water to exorcise... Ruth threatened Horn with a knife, Trying to save Eli, only to be tricked by Paul into taking the dagger...
When Horne stabbed Eli to death with the dagger, Eli finally broke out his magic power in the crisis, controlled Horne with his mind, so that she stabbed the dagger into his chest... Then, Eli burned to death with his mind Three nuns, killed the fake father Paul who murdered them, and burned the whole building... Eli asked her mother Ruth what Horne injected into her body, and Ruth said it was holy water...
Hailey outside the building told Eli that Perry and several other dead children were their half-brothers and sisters, and they had a common father - the devil...
In the end, Haley asked Ruth to drive and take the two to meet the devil father...
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