Synopsis/Details
GOBLIN MARKET
Written by Anna Rose Woodliff
Corporate Surveillance Thriller | Feature Film
Two sisters. One company. A conspiracy that starts with a family farm and doesn’t end.
Lauren is a soldier stationed in Afghanistan when she finds out her parents died in a fire three months ago. She goes AWOL to come home and discovers her sister Elizabeth has disappeared into the live-in compound of a data company called Omnidata. Lauren can't get in. Elizabeth won't come out. And the more Lauren digs, the more she realizes the fire, the farm, Afghanistan, and Omnidata all trace back to the same invisible hand: an asset management firm called Graystone.
Inside, Elizabeth doesn't know she's a prisoner. Omnidata has given her a salary, a community, and an AI therapist called Clement. The AI slowly rewrites her memory, softening her grief, isolating her from Lauren, making the cage feel like home. She's happy. Sort of.
Lauren's only real ally is Frank, a former Graystone contractor living off-grid with a kill switch full of everything he knows about the company. He's paranoid, volatile, and the closest thing to a weapon she has. Together, they plan the infiltration.
When Lauren finally breaks in and reaches her sister, Elizabeth doesn't believe her. She doesn't even remember the night Lauren said goodbye before shipping out, because Clement erased it. The reunion they've both been waiting for becomes the most painful scene in the film: two sisters looking at each other across a gap that a corporation manufactured.
Elizabeth finds her way back on her own. The moment she disconnects from the system, the memories start coming back. She pulls the data, finds the proof, and goes back for her sister. But Graystone doesn’t let people just walk away.
(Based on the Christina Rossetti poem about two sisters, temptation, and rescue.)
Comparisons: Severance meets The Fugitive. A character-driven thriller about family, memory, and the systems that want to contain us.
