Power can't protect you.

When the son of an L.A. mayoral candidate is kidnapped, he and his wife have a few hours to come up with the ransom payment. With most of their money spent on his political campaign, they have to get their hands dirty and expose a side of their lives they never intended to see the light of day.
Animals keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing power, corruption, politics, morality, inequality.
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.