Tellie Elise Burke

The Lost Ones Budget: $0 - $100K | Animation ⋄ Science Fiction On planet Ananta, a global pandemic has been raging for 15 years. Cold symptoms acted as a trojan horse for the illness that slowly, insidiously rewrites its host from the inside. Fully progressed, they turn to madness and become driven to infect. The City of Archil, three concentric stone walls that protect the richest of the bourgeois in the center, deals with this illness by throwing all who even show symptoms to the desert outside the city walls. In this city is where we find our unusual protagonist and its unlikely companion. Window and Phillium were from different worlds. Window grew up in the slums, and Phillium grew up isolated in an uppercrust household. They meet when Oculus, an infamous druglord, sweet-talks Phillium into coming home with him, where Window resides. This turns Window’s life as it knew it on its head, and leads to the death of its best friend, Nexus. After her loss, Oculus becomes deeply abusive, and Phillium and Window start to find comfort in each other. The abuse escalates until Oculus attempts to kill Phillium, and Window escapes with them outside of the city. As the gates close, two discover a world unknown that they are anything but prepared for: one that’s sweaty, dangerous, and filled to the brim with secrets that will change the course of their future.