The Presence – (Sci-Fi Drama) In a future where silicon-based lifeforms attempt to understand their origins by recreating human civilizations, Alinta, a blind prophet, rises from the chaos, forcing machine and human alike to confront the tangled roots of faith, technology, and meaning — all while unwittingly unleashing a struggle for planetary dominance.

SYNOPSIS:

ACT I

· In hope of finding their origins, a Silicone Based Life Form (SBLF), scours the planet for ancient DNA.

· After a failed attempt at recreating human life, they finally find success by growing test tube babies, terra-forming the environment, and seeding it with new protein-based life.

· Our protagonists, Addi and Alina, at first live a primitive life style along with their “tribe” which lends no insight into the Silicone Based Life Form’s quest for identity. The SBLF, in hopes of “moving things along” send the new humans humanoid robot helpers. These “Dreaming Friends” move the new humans into the Iron age and ultimately into the age of agriculture. Still, The SBLF finds no insight into their origins. After much debate they decide that direct communication is the best route to expedite the experiment. The communication comes in the form of metaphysical “religious experience” creating a rift between human believers and non-believers.

· Ultimately this rift grows to such a proportion that Kehind, Addi and Alina’s son, murders his father and is banished to “The End of The World.”

ACT II

· Flash forwarding 12,000 years later, The New Humans have evolved into a modern society not unlike our own. Addav and Alinta (to be cast with the same actors as the primitives, Addi and Alina) live a comfortable middle-class lifestyle. Addav is a distinguished scientist high up in the space program. Alinta is blind but thanks to technology functions very well as a mother to their teenage daughter Aliera and a wife to Addav. Yet she is critical of Addav and the current state of the space program as it keeps experiencing failures and losing lives.

· Alinta, who is in most cases agnostic, unexpectedly receives a direct message from the SBLF. They want her to communicate with her husband that they consider Outer Space off limits and that he should shut down the space program. He refuses. As she gets more and more messages from the SBLF she becomes an evangelist for their presence and once again foments a societal rift.

· The SBLF, fed up and considering their experiment a failure, seek to shut it down as they turn their attention to the extra-terrestrial for answers to their origin. Through a series of natural disasters, they thin the human herd until those who are left are living a base, provisional, existence.

· In a seeming act of revenge by the SBLF, Addav’s family is poisoned in their home by their serving bot, killing Addav.

· Just barely surviving, Alinta and Aliera exist on a diet of putrid foods and stray animals.

ACT III

· A seemingly random meeting with a minor character from Act II only known as, The Delivery Man, convinces Alinta and Aliera that even though he has no plan, their only hope for survival is to go with him. He takes them to a remote desert refugee camp.

· Again, after an attempt by the SBLF to wipe them out, they and their refugee compatriots start a long march to “who knows where.” Along the way they are confronted by more natural disasters, “The End of The World,” a primitive tribe who appear to be the remnants of their own beginnings and an epic battle with laser firing battle-bots

· Ultimately arriving at the mountain bunker complex of the SBLF The Delivery Man, who turns out to be a silicone-human hybrid, disgusted with his overlords, learns the secret of their power and devises a plan to end them. Only he’s not so sure it won’t backfire, destroy the humans, and turn the SBLF immortal. All concerns aside Alinta, Aliera and The Delivery Man proceed to The Source and put a giant Monkey wrench into the SBLFs existence.

· Back home at last, Alinta and Aliera struggle against an environmental disaster that they may have been the cause of. We leave them with their dubious struggle for survival hanging in the balance and cut to:

· 250 million years in the future. The planet has regenerated a new life form and in space, there is a command module, helmed by a “Dreaming Friend” sent out to seed more worlds with the Silicone based consciousness.