The story is about Nick and Jonah, new students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It seems that sincerity has a great passion for becoming a talented hacker since they were born. The story may be going on a long journey, as Nick and his girlfriend accidentally follow the footsteps of the famous rival pirates and discover a dangerous secret place. After a brief period of fighting in the middle of the desert, everyone woke up and found themselves trapped inside this place and had to get out of it.
While following familiar sci-fi codes, what makes The Signal unique is the way it's transmitted. Because just when you think you've found its wavelength, it switches to another.
It's a movie of ideas rather than spectacle (Philip K Dick's dreamy electric sheep are inevitably invoked) with some well realised visual effects (a la Ex Machina) giving it genre legs.
