It's after midnight in the lab, the machines are humming quietly. Nithia, a dedicated scientist, is concentrating fully on her experiment. Markus, her older colleague, watches her from the darkness. He is seething with envy as he realizes that Nithia is on the verge of surpassing his scientific success. The tension between the two increases when he confronts her. What begins as a harmless conversation quickly escalates into an aggressive confrontation.