Lapsis
“Your life belongs to the machines.”
In a parallel present, delivery man Ray Tincelli is struggling to support himself and his ailing younger brother. After a series of two-bit hustles and unsuccessful swindles, Ray takes a job in a strange new realm of the gig economy: trekking deep into the forest, pulling cable over miles of terrain to connect large, metal cubes that link together the new quantum trading market. As he gets pulled deeper into the zone, he encounters growing hostility and the threat of robot cablers, and must choose to either help his fellow workers or to get rich and get out.
A chillingly plausible vision of the future of work. It feels like a grim, grounded sci-fi thriller that slowly suffocates you with its depiction of relentless corporate exploitation and the human cost of technological advancement.
