The Dreamers

In an isolated college town in the hills of Southern California, a freshman girl stumbles into her dorm room, falls asleep—and doesn’t wake up. She sleeps through the morning, into the evening. Her roommate, Mei, cannot rouse her. Neither can the paramedics who carry her away, nor the perplexed doctors at the hospital. Then a second girl falls asleep, and then another. Panic takes hold of the college and spreads to the town. As the number of cases multiplies, classes are canceled and stores begin to run out of supplies. A quarantine is established. The National Guard is summoned. '