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By Cynna Ael

GENRE: Thriller / Suspense, Horror
LOGLINE:

To save his sister from a monolithic corporation that quantifies human worth by their relevance score, an accountant must weaponize the flaw the system was built to destroy and trigger a digital paradox to crash it before his own identity vanishes forever.

Tagline-

Relevance is a score. Irrelevance is a death sentence.

SYNOPSIS:

In a near-future world governed by the monolithic OmniCorp, human worth is measured by a "Relevance Score" and personal flaws are physically and psychologically smoothed to create the perfectly compliant Base Human Model. Accountant LEO CASSIDY (30s) is fighting to maintain his existence—and protect his art student sister, Clara, whose tuition money is his greatest "Inefficient Emotional Tether." Leo's resistance is embodied by a faint scar on his hand, the last analog proof of his identity.

The crisis hits when Leo’s coworker is Hard Deleted from the system. Terrified the financial tie to Clara will be severed next, Leo infiltrates the brutal North Star Achievement Center, where human assets are processed. Inside, he allies with ANNA REYES, a mother fighting to protect her son Mateo's "color" from being smoothed away. Their paranoia is confirmed by the death of inmate Mr. Cole during a psychological purge.

They receive their tools: an analog USB-C Spoofer from The Ghost (an exiled Engineer), and a gold cufflink from his rival, RICK STERLING, who sacrifices his mind and memory to become the Base Human Model in a desperate act to shield his own son. The Ghost reveals the system's core weakness: the Founder encoded a Recursive Logic Error related to his own flaw. Leo realizes he must force the system to register his erased scar to crash OmniLink.

With their deletion time moved up to IMMEDIATE, they launch their desperate heist. They are intercepted by the FACILITATOR and a team of Perfect Guards. In a powerful act of sacrifice, Anna shoves a cart into a large holographic screen and uses a cloned keycard to bridge a connection, flooding the Guards' visual displays with chaotic, non-compliant digital noise (the "Art Anomaly"). This thematic visual sabotage briefly blinds the Guards' optimized senses, buying Leo the time he needs. Anna is captured and subdued by neural dampening to buy Leo time.

Leo sprints to the Shuttle Bay Override, losing the last physical trace of his scar to the final Sanitation Mist along the way. At the terminal, he uses the analog gold cufflink to bridge the hardwired connection and triggers the Recursive Logic Error. The system is hit with an existential paradox: If the perfect Founder had an erased flaw, is the system itself a lie? The OmniLink collapses in a chaotic explosion of light and sound.

Leo escapes with the traumatized Anna and leads a mass-breakout of confused, unoptimized citizens. They achieve a victory of invisibility—destroying the record of their debt and making themselves irrelevant to the broken system. Weeks later, Leo is in the Brink, anonymous, watching his sister thrive. But his burner phone flickers, displaying a final message: “WELCOME BACK, ASSET 801. THE CITADEL IS STILL RECRUITING.” As a security camera swivels to track him, Leo knows he is still being hunted. But a message from Anna reveals the true mission: she is safe and is now actively tracking the Founder's preserved "original node"—the physical body that acts as the system's final analog firewall. The fight is not over; it has just moved to the shadows.

To be human is to be flawed. To be flawless is to be deleted- CEO of OmniCorp

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