The Sterile Cradle

In the hyper-regulated Republic of Nova Albion, a senior energy executive exploits a totalitarian system of mechanized social hygiene to imprison her daughter within a perfect, germ-free world. When a massive financial fraud suit threatens to expose the chillingly precise methods she used to eliminate every outside influence, maternal devotion reveals itself as a state-sanctioned engine of absolute control, where love is indistinguishable from a calibration protocol and every act of protection is a meticulously logged purge.