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MANIFESTO
By Ryan Gibbons

GENRE: Sci-fi
LOGLINE:

An arms dealer must protect a wealthy woman when a violent revolutionist begins preying on the prominent members of a failed society.

SYNOPSIS:

Silver City has never been a friendly place. Legend says it was built on an island where silver was abundant. As time went on, the island broke into threes.

As the years went on, the people started to divide until the three islands represented a person’s economic status. There were the Slums, the Middle Island, and the Upper Island. Those in the slums were extremely poor, those in the middle were well off, and those on the Upper Island were excessively wealthy.

Mayor Mendoza runs the city; he’s a decent man, but a very poor leader. The Middle class blames him most of all for the division.

Eventually, the Middle class rebels, but they are quelled. The leader of the Red Guard, the mayor’s police force, Codenamed Titan, orchestrates the destruction of the Middle Island.

Very quickly, Titan sees the destruction of the middle class as an opportunity. While Hector cowers with his trusted bodyguard, Xander Rivera; Titan teams up with a local serial killer, and together, they exterminate the Red Guard. Soon after, they raise a new army of Alizarin Guards and start rebuilding the city. A young man named Lennox travels to Silver City and begins helping with construction on the bridge. The head of the Detective Agency, Paul Tucker, brings Lennox to Mendoza’s attention, Mendoza tells him to leave Lennox alone.

A year passes, and Silver City has fallen into utter chaos, and has become a place where any sense of morality is long gone. With Titan nearly ready to bring his plan to fruition, and Mayor Mendoza cowering on the top floor of his tower, the only security in the city is the new Alizarin Guard and they don't know who to take orders from. Prostitution is at a high, and murder is commonplace.

Lennox is now working as a conman, selling cheap weapons to local gangs for tons of money, his two closest friends are Reno, and Gru. Reno is a bartender from Africa, and Gru is an Asian survivor from the Middle Island.

Shortly after Lennox starts seeing Mendoza’s secretary, Alli Vargas, Titan takes over the airwaves and broadcasts his message of revolution. It is his intention to eliminate all on the Upper Island and rebuild the city from the bottom, hoping that, if his plan works, the citizens will come to revere him.

Titan’s plan starts to affect all. A beautiful prostitute who longs for a meaningful relationship, a perverted video store owner with a dark secret, a young girl who has never known the feeling of love, an Irish sea captain, a womanizing club owner, a comedian, a female detective who has left her wild past behind her, and a drug dealer.

As Titan sets out to finish what he started, several will face life changing truths, and Lennox will learn why the mayor of the city wanted him protected.

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