Hole Punched Ear
In a dystopian Chicago, a poet, bound by a strange countdown clock, struggles to finish a poem as her sister tries to free her. Dystopian Chicago. Sometime in the future. Zorina Harcrow is locked in a decrepit prison. She is a poet and scrawls her verse in a beat up notebook. As she writes, her poetry is spoken to us through voiceover and will be the only dialogue in the film. The poet is constrained by a digital clock embedded inside her arm that counts down from eleven minutes. Zorina’s sister Faye Harcrow tries to break into the prison. But is successful only on her second try. Zorina’s arm clock gets down to zero and she frantically finishes her poem. She is taken away by guards but drops her poem in the hallway outside the cell. Zorina is placed in a red execution chair, the arm clock had been counting down to her death. Zorina is executed just as Faye, after fighting off armed guards, reaches Zorina’s empty cell and finds the dropped poem. Faye is filled with revenge, grief, and rage as we hear the final lines of Zorina’s poem.
Alan Yammin - Producer
Samantha Dwyer - Producer
Grayson Spitzer - Producer