Nature photographer Mike Lawrence is on assignment in the Arctic Circle. His world is shattered as a savage attack by a monstrous creature leaves him clinging to life in the middle of a frozen no-man’s land. When a mysterious helicopter rescues him from certain doom, his rights, his freedom, and his very humanity are ripped away.
He awakens to find himself a prisoner, quarantined against his will in a facility controlled by a group of doctors. Stripped of his identity and his liberties, he becomes a test subject, one of hundreds kept behind bars and subjected to horrific medical experiments. Even as he struggles to survive against harsh conditions and barbaric treatment, the greatest horrors are revealed beneath the light of the full moon – A terrible transformation known as “The Cycle,” an affliction that the doctors will stop at nothing to wipe out. Guided by an enigmatic and dangerous cellmate, Mike Lawrence realizes that his only chance for liberation is to embrace the dark, savage side of himself.