This isn't Hotel California. Despite the five star rating, there is nothing sunny and warm about this luxurious downtown Chicago hotel. Five important guests are arriving - invited, coerced, and even blackmailed by an unknown benefactor known only to each of them as their HOST. These five Alpha personalities are forced to remain together in penthouse Suite 1601, the top floor of the hotel - operating under the strict guidelines and instructions secreted to them by their HOST. Of these five, three are renowned journalists, household names easily recognized by years of primetime news and television expos#65533;'s.Each participant believes they are present to use their unique career gifts to interview, report, or rout out some mystery worthy of a career enhancing Pulitzer Prize.It is not until their Cooperative is forced to report on a death inside the hotel, until all exits are sealed, that a dire threat will erase all of their preconceived ideas. Nothing is as it seems. Each member inside the cage will extract a variety of beliefs from the same clues, while trying to escape the maze of fears inside the hotel.