--- title: "44 Minutes | Assembly Festival" meta: "og:description": "Four men. Strangers. Trapped in a cage. Desperate, they try to piece together what their captors might want from them. Soon enough, they discover that they've been thrown into a perverse psychological experiment: they must choose one of them to die so the others might live. Whose life is more valuable and who should be sacrificed? And why these four men? Is there something that links them? Something even they are unaware of? And why does one of the men not even remember who he is? Is he the key to understanding the meaning of this horror?" "og:title": "44 Minutes" "twitter:description": "Four men. Strangers. Trapped in a cage. Desperate, they try to piece together what their captors might want from them. Soon enough, they discover that they've been thrown into a perverse psychological experiment: they must choose one of them to die so the others might live. Whose life is more valuable and who should be sacrificed? And why these four men? Is there something that links them? Something even they are unaware of? And why does one of the men not even remember who he is? Is he the key to understanding the meaning of this horror?" "twitter:title": "44 Minutes" description: "Four men. Strangers. Trapped in a cage. Desperate, they try to piece together what their captors might want from them. Soon enough, they discover that they've been thrown into a perverse psychological experiment: they must choose one of them to die so the others might live. Whose life is more valuable and who should be sacrificed? And why these four men? Is there something that links them? Something even they are unaware of? And why does one of the men not even remember who he is? Is he the key to understanding the meaning of this horror?" --- # 44 Minutes [**← **Back to What's On](https://assemblyfestival.com/whats-on) [ ![44 Minutes](https://assemblyfestival.com/_vercel/image?url=https:%2F%2Fassemblyfestival.pazaz.studio%2Fassets%2Fbc9bc27f-903e-484c-9dfd-3c5b6e788782?width=360%26height=360%26format=webp&w=1536&q=100) # 44 Minutes Four men. Strangers. Trapped in a cage. Desperate, they try to piece together what their captors might want from them. Soon enough, they discover that they've been thrown into a perverse psychological experiment: they must choose one of them to die so the others might live. Whose life is more valuable and who should be sacrificed? And why these four men? Is there something that links them? Something even they are unaware of? And why does one of the men not even remember who he is? Is he the key to understanding the meaning of this horror? 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