Oisin Kelleher

An 18-year-old girl battles the darkness of trauma and sexual abuse while striving to break free and heal from her past, using the visual and poetic metaphor of drowning to represent her struggle.

In a post-war future, humanity sought refuge in the TechLink — a neural device used for healing scarred minds. But one of the system’s creators, Markus, has twisted it into a tool of control, in pursuit of creating a perfect society, trapping the population in a false utopia. Samantha, a former ally and co-creator of TechLink, returns to the lifeless city to confront Markus and free the minds held captive. Battling through illusions and memories, she faces her former friend in a brutal, reality-warping showdown. To save humanity, Samantha must destroy the system from within — risking her life to restore what TechLink stole: free will.