Emotionless
Falisse, Marie-Céline (2024)
2024
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Logline:
In a future society in which only pill-induced emotions are allowed, a teenage girl able to feel some emotions naturally sets out to fix herself. By experiencing love and trust, she eventually learns to accept herself and her difference.
Synopsis:
In the city-state of New Samsara, where only controlled pill-induced emotions are allowed and natural emotions are punishable by death, LISA COLSON (14) strives to fit in but gets increasingly confused and endangered as she must hide that she can feel some emotions without pills. After getting heartbroken and overwhelmed by negative emotions, Lisa sets to understand what is wrong with her with the aim to fix herself.
On her quest, she understands that she was adopted. She meets JOHN (18) who can also feel emotions naturally and who seems to be willing to help her find answers. Lisa also gets to meet her biological mother, but ends up deeply disappointed. While it becomes clear that John cannot be trusted, Lisa comes to the conclusion that there must be other people like herself in New Samsara.
Lisa has to reveal the truth to her adoptive parents, who eventually agree to support her. Together, they manage to steal information on other teenagers able to feel emotions naturally with the aim to find people with whom Lisa could safely be herself. However, Lisa gets trapped by John, who now wants to turn her into someone like himself, driven by hatred. Lisa gets saved from John at the last-minute, but her secret was revealed. She gets arrested, along with the other teenagers able to feel emotions.
Lisa now has to make a choice: either accept a lifelong emotion-suppressing treatment or face trial. She chooses to face trial and gets sentenced to death. With the help of people she can trust, Lisa and her new teenage friends man-age to escape from the city. They run away together, feeling free to be them-selves at last.
In a future society in which only pill-induced emotions are allowed, a teenage girl able to feel some emotions naturally sets out to fix herself. By experiencing love and trust, she eventually learns to accept herself and her difference.
Synopsis:
In the city-state of New Samsara, where only controlled pill-induced emotions are allowed and natural emotions are punishable by death, LISA COLSON (14) strives to fit in but gets increasingly confused and endangered as she must hide that she can feel some emotions without pills. After getting heartbroken and overwhelmed by negative emotions, Lisa sets to understand what is wrong with her with the aim to fix herself.
On her quest, she understands that she was adopted. She meets JOHN (18) who can also feel emotions naturally and who seems to be willing to help her find answers. Lisa also gets to meet her biological mother, but ends up deeply disappointed. While it becomes clear that John cannot be trusted, Lisa comes to the conclusion that there must be other people like herself in New Samsara.
Lisa has to reveal the truth to her adoptive parents, who eventually agree to support her. Together, they manage to steal information on other teenagers able to feel emotions naturally with the aim to find people with whom Lisa could safely be herself. However, Lisa gets trapped by John, who now wants to turn her into someone like himself, driven by hatred. Lisa gets saved from John at the last-minute, but her secret was revealed. She gets arrested, along with the other teenagers able to feel emotions.
Lisa now has to make a choice: either accept a lifelong emotion-suppressing treatment or face trial. She chooses to face trial and gets sentenced to death. With the help of people she can trust, Lisa and her new teenage friends man-age to escape from the city. They run away together, feeling free to be them-selves at last.