Every year at the university's biggest party — the Shutdown — students dance, drink, and disappear. Not into the crowd, but into *death*. For years, students have been mysteriously *killed while leaving the event*, their lifeless bodies found inside cars, engines running, no witnesses, and no justice.
Lola, a quiet final-year student, decides to attend the Shutdown one last time. But when she asks her friend Tobi to take her home early, they encounter a suspicious man demanding money. Just beyond the road, *two shadowy figures lurk in the woods*, watching. She pretends not to see them, sensing danger.
As fireworks explode in the sky — a cover to mask the chaos — Lola begins to piece together the horrifying pattern: the fireworks, the darkness, the silence... all part of a *ritual of death* that's been ignored for too long.
But this year, someone finally speaks.
*Terror*, a feared and silent student leader, steps forward to break the silence — exposing secrets buried deep within the
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