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John Leben | United States | 00:15:37 | 2021
English

Amy, a twelve year old girl, lives under a glass dome and sometimes has to wear a gas mask when the elephants let her go outside. Her outside friend is Gus, a grumpy 100 year old tortoise. Amy narrates Gus’s story of environmental disaster when humanity almost destroyed the planet. Technocrats called Bald-Headed Suiters created habitats for people to live in a worsening environment beset by storms, floods and unbreathable air. But the Suiters cared little about the planet or the animals that populated it. Their solutions were short-sighted, only focused on the survival of humanity. After the forests burned in the fires of global warming, the suiters built villages under giant glass domes where people could breath manufactured air. But then a funny thing happened. With humanity isolated under glass, the world began to heal. Humanity, and especially the Bald-Headed Suiters, were like a virus, sickening the planet. The animals, including Gus the tortoise, noticed the change and went to work rebuilding the forests… their homes that were devastated by the fires of global warming. As the forests grew the Suiters dreamt of rebuilding their cities and reestablishing their dominance over nature setting the stage for an epic struggle between the animals and the suiters.

Cast
Audrey Leben Haynes

Writer
John Leben

Producer
John Leben