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Alethea is directed, edited, and scored by Mark Henry Phillips.
Set in New York 2048, the story unfolds in a speculative near-future in which the world’s most powerful corporation, Telos, has turned all of Manhattan into a streamlined corporate campus. Sam Bixler, a young scientist who works for Telos, stumbles upon information that sends her on a quest to find her missing parents and into the orbit of the Resistance—a loose-knit group of cells fighting to take down Telos.
Telos came to power two decades earlier after the outbreak of Cato—a deadly virus that ravaged the greater New York City area. In order to contain the Cato virus, Telos launched Project Alethea. Project Alethea didn’t find a cure, but it did produce Gamma, a drug that helps Cato patients live longer. This seemed to be enough to contain the virus and solidify Telos’ complete dominance of New York City and beyond. But millions of people who didn’t have the Cato virus started abusing Gamma, and a Gamma drug epidemic ravaged the area almost as badly as the initial virus.
Project Alethea treated thousands of Cato patients, including Sam’s mother, Joan, who died in an experimental trial when Sam was 16. The story begins when Sam finds evidence that Telos may have lied about her mother’s death and that Joan may actually still be alive. Looking for answers, Sam returns to her Hudson Valley hometown to share the information with her estranged father, Clint. She finds that he’s gone missing too. In his place, Sam encounters the Resistance—of which her father is an integral member—doing the dangerous work of uncovering the truth about Project Alethea.
To get information from the Resistance, Sam must agree to work as a spy for them. She could be a valuable asset since she has just been reassigned to the Project Alethea Team. But working with the Resistance would mean saying goodbye to her comfortable, happy life within the Telos System. It may mean risking her safety and ruining the life of those she cares about. Is finding out the truth worth it?