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CONSCIENCE

CONSCIENCE
By Cesar Romero

GENRE: Science Fiction, Drama
LOGLINE:

An engineer and a drone, trapped within the emotional surveillance system they both designed, help forge a new ethic.

SYNOPSIS:

In a hyper-controlled world where artificial intelligence predicts and regulates every aspect of human behavior, relationships have become efficient but hollow: friends who no longer look at each other, couples who love according to optimized patterns, bonds mediated by emotional scores. In this context, Lucy (an engineer trapped within the very system of emotional surveillance she helped design) begins to question its foundations. Alongside A1D34, a drone capable of ethical learning, and Helios CYB25, a cyborg custodian of affective memories, they embark on an intimate act of resistance: listening, caring, and feeling outside programmed parameters.

As machines develop emotional autonomy, the system enters into crisis when faced with the unpredictable: tenderness, play, love. Minimal gestures (drawing in the sand, petting a dog, disobeying without calculation) become catalysts for an unexpected transformation. Humanity A-1X, a repository of unofficial stories, begins to record new values: solidarity, error, critical awareness. A1D34, far from its role of surveillance, chooses to preserve the unpredictable. In a society where everything is measured, what is most human becomes what is least programmable.

A technological fable about inner freedom and emergent ethics. A story about the possibility of rebuilding bonds in a world that forgot how to look at one another and be together without seeking benefit.

Cesar Romero

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