Set against the foggy, isolated backdrop of the coastal town of Saint Augustine, Hive Mind is a darkly mischievous sci-fi drama about the ultimate power trip of a small-town election loser.
The story revolves around Austin, a fragile local who loses a city council seat to a bougie capitalist and decides to cope with the rejection by obsessing over a secondhand beehive.
When a local teenage girl goes missing in the nearby canyon, Austin claims he can hear her voice echoing through the hive, using the bizarre delusion to birth "Apiarism" — a full-blown cult dedicated to tapping into a universal consciousness, manipulating energy, and transforming human beings into pure light.