When a Bolivian-American Interpol agent fails to persuade corrupt UN officials to save her country’s collapsing farms — including her family’s — she turns to an absurd underground network of “prickers,” mischievous needle-pokers with a global following, to pull off a chaotic plan to expose the corruption they all tried to ignore.

SYNOPSIS:

Logline and Pitch for Prickers

By Kevin Dobbs

100 Page Feature Comedy

Tonal Comps:

Prickers blends the absurdist satire of The Death of Stalin with the bureaucratic dark comedy of In the Loop, and the quirky subculture exploration of Sorry to Bother You. Add a dash of The Men Who Stare at Goats for its surreal approach to government absurdity, and a pinch of Borat.

LOGLINE

When a Bolivian-American Interpol agent fails to persuade corrupt UN officials to save her country’s collapsing farms — including her family’s — she turns to an absurd underground network of “prickers,” mischievous needle-pokers with a global following, to pull off a chaotic plan to expose the corruption they all tried to ignore.

PITCH

Prickers is a politically charged, offbeat feature comedy about justice, desperation, and one of the weirdest subcultures on earth.

Wamani Ramos (36), a no-nonsense Interpol agent with Bolivian roots, is used to navigating the complexities of international crime — but nothing prepares her for the level of corruption she faces at the United Nations. A crucial vote that would audit farm subsidies — and stop thousands of Bolivian farms from collapsing — is blocked by four officials who've been secretly enriching themselves through the very fraud the vote would expose.

After exhausting every diplomatic and legal avenue, Wamani stumbles onto a bizarre subculture: prickers — eccentric people who take secret pleasure in poking strangers with needles in public places. It’s not violent — it’s… recreational. There's a whole world behind it: message boards, workshops, influencers, and even an international convention in Geneva. And shockingly, one of her Interpol coworkers is not only a veteran pricker but a legend in the community.

What begins as a desperate stab at justice spirals into a wild, high-stakes plan involving stealth, social manipulation, and one of the strangest weaponized hobbies ever conceived. Wamani teams up with the prickers to target the corrupt officials — not with deadly violence, but with strategic, subversive chaos — all leading to an unforgettable showdown at the UN.

With the blessing of her boss and lover, Korean American Betty (40), Wamani and her UN colleague Abdul (37) organize a group of award-winning Prickers who will prick corrupt UN officials into doing the right thing.

PRICKERS