Wellsville

Four misfits, a cryptic warning, and a town that won’t wake up. Stranger Things meets The Matrix in this mind-bending sci-fi about control, consciousness, and escaping the cage you didn’t know you were in.

It’s recess on a Monday, and Colby Dunn is the only one left standing in a school quad littered with his unconscious classmates. Meanwhile, up in the computer lab, Liam Wheeler has just recovered from one of Colby's signature beatdowns to find a strange warning on his computer screen:

Stay hidden. Follow the conscious. Find the island.

Priya Tantos was napping in the library when the entire school collapsed around her, and Mia Yang had skipped school to partake in some devious activities at the beach, only to discover that it's not just their school that has slipped into a sudden slumber, it's the entire town. 

Nobody ever leaves Wellsville, and Mia, Liam, Colby and Priya would prefer to be trapped in a collective coma than spend another second alone with one another, but to figure out what has happened to their cosy little beach haven, they’ll have no choice but to sneak across the border that no one ever dares cross. What they stumble upon on the other side is far more twisted than any of them could have imagined: a futuristic city inhabited by god-like beings with the power to erase them from existence with a single thought. To survive, they’ll need to evade a hive mind of security drones led by a bigoted Inspector, conquer VR games indistinguishable from reality and stay off the radar of a game developer turned digital sorceress, all while trying to locate an old surfer who once held the fate of humankind in the palm of his hand. The old programmer who sent Liam the message is the only one who can shed light on the mysteries confronting the four Wellsvillian fugitives. But sometimes ignorance is bliss, and when it comes to the earth-shattering secret behind humanity’s very existence, the truth might be better left in the dark.