In a segregated dystopian future Chicago, a whistleblower's widow becomes an escort to try to provide for her daughter - and ends up becoming the trigger point for a class war.

SYNOPSIS:

ANNA, a local TV-presenter, and MICHAEL work hard to provide EMILY, their twelve-year-old prodigy child, with the perfect Uptown childhood. Uptown is the rich part of the city, whose adult residents must have an income of at least 4000$ per month to be allowed living there, the exact amount of money Police Officers earn in future Chicago. While Anna lives in constant fear of social decline because of the running costs and plays along with the game, her husband Michael is committed to more justice. He works as an insurance salesman in the poor part of the city, just called Downtown, and sells the people expensive health policies they actually do need but are also forced by law to buy. Michael advises them as best he can and secretly collects information.

Everything changes when POLICE OFFICER JUDY sets a trap for Michael and kills him on behalf of her lover BRIAN, a former cop, now a life-coach and founder of the insurance company. Before he dies, Michael sends Emily a message containing a tab with intel from the insurance company proving that the Downtown population is systematically abandoned with their health problems. Without Michael’s income, Anna and Emily fall below the limit and have to move to Downtown. When Michael’s soul ascends to heaven, a serene ANGEL tells him that his family must not despair and that he must make peace with his fate before he may enter paradise.

In Downtown, Anna and Emily meet CASSIUS, an African-American intellectual and leader of an activist group called THE SCARFS. After Emily is robbed of her cell phone by a girl gang called THE MAMBAS, she attends one of Cassius’ lectures and learns about the poor Downtown living conditions. She also gets to know ALISA, a confident Downtown girl and cousin of Cassius, who even got back her cell phone.

Judy suggests that Anna should meet Brian who may actually help her. When Anna meets him, he promises her she will quickly come into money again if she works an escort for rich Uptown people. Anna reluctantly accepts his offer but doesn’t tell Emily about it.

As Michael is about to accept his fate of having been murdered and can’t go back to be with his family, the angel rewards him by creating a torrential rainstorm down on Earth without Michael noticing. Due to the rain, Cassius takes a cab back home, which then picks up Emily and Alisa who follow Anna when she meets her second client in an Uptown nightclub. Surprisingly, the client is Brian, who tells Anna that he wants her all for himself now. Just as Anna wants to leave, Emily and Alisa arrive, thinking Anna has an affair with Brian. The ensuing argument is stifled by Judy who enters the club with a gun and wants to get rid of Anna and Emily once and for all. The cab driver, actually a member of the Scarfs, manages to disarm Judy with Alisa’s help and escape the club with Anna and Emily. They drive away through the rainstorm but Judy chases them with her bike and tries to shoot them down. On a Downtown bridge in bad shape she loses control, falls into Chicago River and disappears.

Brian now uses his influence over politicians who used his escort service to blackmail Anna into marrying him, or otherwise be punished with at least ten years in prison for Michael’s whistleblowing. With the help of the community, Anna uses the tab to make posters that are placed on billboards all over Downtown overnight. Each poster has Brian's company as the originator of the campaign. Anna now proposes Brian that she will confess, if he uses his influence again to make Cassius the first African-American Police Officer in decades. When Brian accepts, the whole community makes confessions, thus making the investigations lead nowhere. As Anna and Emily take heart and Michael realizes that he’s still connected to them and always will be, his soul is finally allowed into paradise.