BLINK-BLINK

In the near future, AI powered wearable lenses, or "Blinks", have replaced smartphones, allowing for all digital communication, searches, and transactions to be completed through the feed. Following a period of civil unrest and widespread protests, only Safe Speech is legal; those who speak critically of the administration or its policies are dissidents and closely monitored. For Blair, an impoverished painter and daughter of dissidents, living a principled, unlensed life is only possible with the help of friends around St. Charles. When the brilliance of her artwork is discovered by Jax, the affluent owner of a prestigious art gallery in nearby St. Louis, a romance unfolds. With the help of her tattoo artist friends, Lillian and Tanner, the young couple is soon forced to confront the challenges of having an unsafe voice in a world purpose-built to silence dissent. Can love and art survive the schemes of the powerful who demand control?