The Anomaly

Traumatised ex-soldier Ryan comes to in the back of a van. Alongside a trussed-up boy who sobs that someone has kidnapped him. Ryan helps the boy escape, they are pursued. But, when Ryan finds a mask in his pocket he comes to an appalling realisation, he's the man who kidnapped the boy. Even more startling, five years have passed since he was last awake. There's no time to act, after nine minutes and thirty seven seconds of consciousness it all goes black again for Ryan, it's like turning off a light. Ryan comes to again, its days later and now he's in a study with a co- conspirator. They kidnapped the boy together and it's merely one step in a much grander plan. Ryan fights the mystery man, gets knocked out only to snap back to consciousness in a New York brothel. He rescues a girl Dana and pleads with her to get him arrested; someone is controlling his mind, making him do things and he has to be stopped. Nine minutes and thirty seven seconds later he loses consciousness again. This time when he wakes he's in the middle of breaking a scientist out of a high security jail.Ryan's episodes of consciousness are occasional and random; each lasts exactly nine minutes and thirty seven seconds - why? Who is in control the rest of the time? And what is the grand scheme that he is unwittingly perpetrating? What does it have to do with his past as a patient at the experimental Hibiscus Unit? Can he sabotage the control mechanism, and get his mind back? Ryan has a lot of questions, and very little time to find answers. (Universal Pictures UK)