Synopsis
The film opens to a scene of modern-day soldiers, armed with swords, preparing to fight an off-screen enemy. As soon as the unseen enemy gets close enough, the soldiers engage them and the scene cuts to a cabin, where it is revealed that the opening scene was a story told by nameless man to his daughter Willa. One of soldiers was Willa's mother. The film then follows Willa and her father as they live their daily lives on a remote island. The father trains Willa to fight and survive, and entertains her with various stories.
One day, while playing in the lagoon, Willa spots a girl running along the beach. Willa stops her right before the girl could step into a minefield and tries to take her to their cabin, but the scared girl refuses. Willa then takes her into a nearby cave, where she sets up a camp. The girl introduces herself as Rosie and tells Willa about her missing brother, and pleads that Willa not tell anyone about her being on the island, to which Willa agrees. Time goes by, Willa continues her normal routine, listening to more of her father's stories, in which he reveals that the unseen enemy from the prologue are monstrous creatures from another dimension, and that the only way to kill them is by decapitation. In her spare time, Willa also secretly looks after Rosie, bringing her food and sharing her father's stories.
One day, during training, Willa injures her father, and knocks him out. After regaining consciousness he deems Willa ready to survive on her own, and grants her his sword. Returning to the cave, Willa finds the camp a mess and Rosie missing. As she looks around, she finds Rosie hunched over, with her clothing torn, and strange scaring on her back. Rosie then turns to face Willa and is revealed to have turned into one of the monsters. She then lets out a loud shriek and attacks Willa. The two struggle briefly until the father comes in and kills Rosie. Recognising the shriek as a call to the other creatures, the father and Willa rush to the south of the island, where a boat is prepared in case they needed to escape.
Making their way to a chasm the father is attacked by another creature and gets bitten. Realising that he will soon turn, he sends Willa for the boat on her own, saying that he will delay the other creatures' advance, to give her time to escape. As Willa reaches the boat, she cannot get it into the water and briefly despairs, but remembering one of the father's stories, she prepares to fight the coming creatures. Just then several boats are seen approaching the island. Aboard are soldiers, led by Willa's mother, who orders the boats' machinegunners to shoot the creatures. The film then ends with Willa's father narrating his final words.
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