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An ill-researched but potentially groundbreaking depression drug has some tragic and unforeseen side-effects on the patients who seek instantaneous release from life's hard lessons in this terrifying look at modern medicine from director Terry Michael King. It appears as if Dr. Peter van Dorn has produced a pill that has the power the cure depression once and for all. Though the drug nicknamed "Nirvana" promises unclouded happiness in a safe and affordable pill, it soon becomes obvious that more research is needed as a horrifying genetic mutant born of "Nirvana" emerges to feed on human brains.