Nine contestants from different walks of life must unanimously agree on which of them deserves the one and a half million-dollar prize; every time they don?t agree, the prize amount decreases.
Players agree to vote so they can end the game and go home but one player secretly changes the vote, causing suspicion and acrimony among the others; one player is outcast and another wants to quit.
Kelly decides to quit, reducing the prize money by fifty percent; Richard is allowed to return but encounters mistrust from the others; alliances are formed as players set their eyes on the prize.
The number of eligible contestants dwindles as another player quits; Adam welcomes his role as outcast; more alliances are formed, as paranoid players continue to be suspicious of each other.
Money continues to slip away as players worry more about who will be cast out than who will get the prize; videos from home tell stories about the remaining contestants; outcasts select the next outcast.
An outcast re-enters the game; a player confesses a secret, deepening the divide between the others; the cash prize continues to dwindle as players? arguments reach a new low.
With only one vote and a half million dollars left before the game ends, players must put their selfishness aside and decide if it is better for someone to get something or for no one to get anything.