A troubled reporter discovers the reason behind a recent uptick of mass shootings --and is devastated to find that her future life … and that of all life on the planet -- is at the core of the violence

Comps – Everything, Everywhere, All At Once, Time Cop

SYNOPSIS:

Sparked to become an anti-gun activist after surviving the PULSE nightclub massacre, LATTE (early 30’s), works for a News network and is called on when similar attacks occur. The world has empathy for her and she does the job with passion. Known for her unique look, due to her mixed heritage … is also gay.

Agent DOMINGO (30’s) of the FBI follows the case and he meets Latte at the studio. As Latte investigates, she finds one mysterious girl at multiple sites of these fatalities. After one slaughter, Latte is present and gives chase after the woman.

They land in a dystopian world. It breaks Latte’s heart when she finds that they went to the future of her homeland. The planet is uninhabitable in many places and the world population has diminished by almost half.

She finds the woman’s name she chased is UHURU (plays 30;s but looks 20;s). Her group sends her to the past to get revenge on what Latte’s generation ignored and pretended wasn’t happening. Billions have died due to this greed and negligence. They feel they have a right to kill the people of that era. Just like Uhuru’s generation has been slaughtered without care. Current gun laws make it easy.

Latte, the world-famous anti-gun crusader, sympathizes with the struggle, but has trouble accepting the tactic used to fight back. She gets a harrowing tour of just how bad things have become.

They show her the grave of the leader of their sect, who was recently killed by police. He went by the name of JOHN HORSE JR (30’s) and helped to build this self-sufficient but rebellious community of survivors.

They drop hints about his past. Then it hits her. John Horse Jr, the movement’s founder … will be her son? But -- Latte is gay. NO WAY!

They explain that this why she was chosen, specifically. More evidence is shown to her to convince her. Overwhelmed, she passes out.

She goes back to the present and uses her media platform to fight for change. She knows the stakes of her failing, will mean mass destruction and billions of lives lost. The backlash against her new crusade to avoid a doomed planets leads to death threats.

Domingo spends time with her while she’s hiding on the Reservation near her grandmother and they have an intimate moment. Latte’s Navajo grandmother’s house is attacked by hot-heads and the old woman is gunned down in an ambush -- meant for Latte. The plan has failed., horribly. It seems all is lost. The tension, sorrow and pain -- more than she can bear.

Angry and bitter, she returns to the future, only to be more saddened to hear that Uhuru is near death from another unwarranted police attack. Latte devises a NEW plan.

Now in the present, Latte uses Uhuru’s trick to control the minds of shooters. They spray down a crowd of big-wigs, who are the ones actually responsible for billions who will die in the future. The woman who once fought to stop mass shootings, now orchestrates her own.

Domingo gives chase. He’s shocked and hurt when he confronts the disguised woman and sees it is Latte. Shaking from mixed emotions, he tries to arrest her. But … She yanks him into the portal to the future. A new life in a new era is about to start and they are important to the outcome, -- which could be less in peril, due to her stopping the bad actors.

Quarterfinalist - Emerging Writers Sci-Fi / Fantasy award 2023

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