The Institute (2021)

The Institute

In the heart of Corby, The Lodge Institute was meant to be a fresh start-a place for students to rebuild their lives and pursue ambition. But beneath the surface, a shadowy organisation is using the school for its own agenda, shaping students into future power players, criminals, and manipulators. The Lodge isn't about education-it's about control.

For Jay McPhie, a former soldier, The Lodge was meant to be a mission-a place to mentor troubled youth and create change. For Cameron Johnston, a disgraced corporate strategist, it's a battlefield, another game of survival. Ben Allsop-known as 10K-sees it as a testing ground, a place to manipulate others into power. Josiah Brailsford wants to expose the truth through journalism, while Tamarah McPhie just wants to find her own path.

But when they uncover the true purpose of The Lodge, they realise they're not students-they're pawns in a much bigger game. The organisation is using the school to hand-pick the next generation of leaders, enforcers, and masterminds, shaping the future to serve their own agenda.

Now, this unlikely group must put aside their differences and fight back. Using their unique skills-military tactics, corporate strategy, digital warfare, and psychological manipulation-they begin dismantling the system from within.

The Lodge was built to train them, break them, and use them.

Instead?

They're tearing it down.

The fight for survival turns into a war for freedom, power, and the future itself.

The Institute will fall-one way or another.