Neon Hollow
Logline
In a flooded mega-city where memories are traded as currency, a broke courier discovers the package she's smuggling contains the last untampered childhood of a missing senator — and four governments want it erased.
Synopsis
Neon Hollow is a neo-noir sci-fi thriller set in 2061 New Lagos, a vertical city half-submerged by climate collapse. Ola Adesina, a freelance memory courier living one missed payment from eviction, accepts a high-paying smuggling run she doesn't ask questions about.
When her client is gunned down at the drop, Ola realizes the encrypted memory chip in her wrist is the only surviving copy of Senator Iyabo Okafor's childhood — sold off, fragmented, and weaponized by a shadow ministry that rewrites public figures from the inside.
Hunted by state assassins and a rival syndicate, Ola must decide whether to sell the memory for the life she's always wanted — or restore it and bring down the architects of a country built on stolen pasts.
Comparables
Projected budget: $18–24M · Target theatrical + premium streaming.
Principal Cast
Courier with a perfect memory she can't sell. Sharp, sleep-deprived, dangerously loyal to her younger brother.
A reformist politician unaware that the version of her the public loves was authored, not lived.
A polished ministry fixer who believes memory edits are mercy, not crime.
Ola's brother, the reason she keeps running — and the reason she eventually stops.
Tone & Visual Palette
Rain-soaked neon. Brutalist Afro-futurist architecture rising from green-black water. Long handheld takes for street scenes; locked-off symmetry for ministry interiors. Score: live strings layered with West African talking drums and analog synth.
Audience & Market
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