After his wife falls into an irreversible coma, Marcos lets SYNNOIA transfer her consciousness into his body—but defeating death turns their marriage into an existence without privacy, consent or escape.
Type:
Short
Status:
For sale
Page Count:
20pp
Genre:
Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Budget:
Independent
Age Rating:
17+
Synopsis/Details

Marcos Guerra survives a car crash that leaves his wife, Eva, in an irreversible coma. At the hospital, SYNNOIA uses his biometric and behavioural data to predict that grief will eventually destroy him. The company offers him an experimental alternative: transferring Eva’s consciousness into a capsule housed inside his body.

The procedure works, but not as Marcos imagined. Eva awakens without a body of her own. She can see, hear and feel only through Marcos, while a small case controls when they can communicate. Whenever Marcos closes it, Eva does not fall asleep; she remains fully conscious in absolute isolation, with no sense of time.

Convinced that he has saved the woman he loves, Marcos attempts to rebuild their life. For Eva, however, survival has become captivity. With no privacy, independence or ability to refuse, she begins to question whether Marcos acted out of love or out of fear of abandonment.

When someone from their past returns and exposes fractures in their marriage, their connection becomes increasingly unstable. Marcos must confront the difference between preserving a consciousness and preserving a person, and decide whether love can exist when only one partner remains free to choose.

All Accolades & Coverage

SYNNOIA has received 15 international awards and 38 total recognitions as an unproduced short screenplay.

Selected recognition:

• 30th Annual Fade In Awards Sci-Fi/Fantasy Competition — Semifinalist
• Creative World Awards — Finalist
• INROADS Screenwriting Fellowship — Quarterfinalist
• WILDsound FEEDBACK Film and Screenplay Festival — Best Short Screenplay
• Hollywood Stage Script Film Competition — Best Sci-Fi Screenplay
• Caravan International Film Festival — Best Short Screenplay
• Caravan International Film Festival — Best Sci-Fi Screenplay
• The Ink & Light Awards — Short Screenplay Winner
• Cambridge Script Festival — Finalist
• Oxford Script Awards — Finalist

Video
SYNNOIA — Concept Trailer

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The Writer: J. H. Allely

J. H. Allely is the professional name of Javier Hinojosa Allely, a Spanish screenwriter based in Seville, Spain. He is the writer of the produced short films LIBERACIÓN and NADA SIN TI, and the author of the unproduced science-fiction screenplays SYNNOIA and THE LAST TEAR OF MAN. His work has received awards, finalist placements and official selections in international screenplay competitions. His writing focuses on original stories, visual storytelling and emotionally driven science fiction. Go to bio
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