Evaders

Synopsis

In an authoritarian future America, the government controls gender and family life. Ziya and Walker, two 17-year-olds, anxiously await their next birthday, which marks their Specification ceremony: the day when they must choose to be male or female and will get sorted into nuclear families. Before Specification, all young constituents live sexless and without a gender.

Ziya and Walker have always taken for granted that they would be matched together, but they are also both inclined to specify as male, knowing that if they do, Specification will tear them apart.

The only way out is becoming the government’s greatest fear: Evaders, those who escape Specification and run away from society.

The government violently hunts down Evaders, keeping citizens under high surveillance and enforcing strict curfews for anyone Unspecified under the age of 18. The only source of information is a state-run broadcast that villainizes Evaders on loop, solidifying citizen’s fear of them. As Specification approaches, Ziya breaks the rules and encounters an Evader, prompting them to choose whether to conform to an oppressive society or risk everything to be true to themselves. On the day of Specification, one choice will change everything.