I thought of this idea just tonight. Here's a synopsis. How does it sound?
The setting takes place in a “quaint” village, where a nuclear disaster occurred many years before any villagers moved in. However, none of the villagers are aware of this. The true power is actually held by one individual, where a fear instilled by spies, “monsters”, and the mysterious ‘Collector’ are all that controls the village. The people work doing tasks for a reason they are not told. Eg. Someone is in charge of baking bread, obviously a good chef. But, this food is rolled off in carts and left alone for no reason, while the people have nothing to eat but very meager rations. However, they are told not to critique the society, and simply to do the work prescribed to them. A child is born to this village, and is found to be deformed. Thus, he is taken from his home and put into a work camp as soon as he can walk. He is in charge of drawing water from the well. He does not know anything else, until a body with a book in it’s coat washes up on the shore. He takes the book, even though he doesn’t know how to read. He brings it to an old woman who knows something of what the words mean. They find it to be a journal. It describes a strange world to him. Next day when he goes out, he begins to question the reason all of the things in the village are happening. At the end of the day, he brings in the book again to finish reading, but the old woman is gone. Her house is gone, taken apart brick by brick. He looks all around town for her, but no one seems to acknowledge her existence, or that a house was ever even there. The story goes on with him looking for meaning and freedom in the village, as well as the location of the old woman. After about two days, no one seems to remember who he is. Confused, he retreats to his rundown house, where he is visited by the collector, who tries to take him away. He angrily unmasks the attacker, who’s face is not seen, but when the main character sees it he looks surprised and without hesitating stabs the collector. That ends the movie
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