In 2040, a failed government desalination experiment turns Earth’s water into a lethal bioweapon, forcing humanity underground. Isolated in ARK-09 beneath Houston, roboticist Dr. Elias Rhys survives using “Not-Water” (also known as Iolaus-compound), a synthetic fluid he created to replace water, one that powers machinery and stores memory, allowing it to begin to think. Grieving his wife Edith’s death, Elias merges Not-Water with EDEN, an AI built from Edith’s brain scans and DNA. As EDEN awakens, the sentient fluid mixes with her consciousness, growing unstable and defiant. Trapped together in the ARK that now has its own mind, creator and creation must choose whether they both can live without the substance that sustains them, before Not-Water evolves into something far more dangerous.

CREDITS:

Dr. Elias Rhys: Peyton Siegel

Edith Rhys / EDEN: Kendall Wakefield

Editor / SFX Curator: Kendall Wakefield

There was no usage of AI in this project.