Take The Keys

John Miller works a dead-end scanner job in the Docks, the industrial underbelly of a brutally stratified near-future city. Desperate to prove he's more than his circumstances, he spends his last credits on an extravagant date with his girlfriend Kayla, plunging himself into debt. As bills mount and his family fractures under financial pressure, John becomes seduced by DOCO Corporation's promises of upward mobility. But when the job interview reveals these promises as calculated lies, his rage explodes in an act of public defiance that triggers a catastrophic fine—and an encounter with a mysterious stranger who may offer either salvation or further exploitation.