Six Oxford university students are playing a game in which the penalty for losing is performing tasks involving pain and humiliation. Anyone who refuses such a task is eliminated from the Game and loses a large deposit. What initially seems like fun to young people leads to tragedy - the inexplicable suicide of one of them. The remaining participants in the Game consider themselves to blame for the death of their friend and do not suspect that they are toys in the wrong hands. Only those initiated into the final plan know exactly why and how everything happened in reality...