Satirical comedy · science fiction · adventure
Cap in a Comm World
When survival is no longer the game, what game do humans choose to play?
Completed Feature Screenplay© Lindsey Esch. All rights reserved.
Logline
When the last self-proclaimed capitalist struggles to find purpose in a post-scarcity anarcho-communist utopia, an optimistic placement counselor tries to find him his dream role—until an underground capitalist society kidnaps him to help overthrow paradise.
The world
Thousands of years after humanity solves poverty, scarcity, and inequality, work has become voluntary. Joe remains devoted to promotions, wealth, and competition. His search for purpose exposes Cap World, a hidden society preserving every exploitative tradition humanity supposedly left behind.
Central themes
- Purpose beyond survival
- Ambition and the games humans choose to play
- Work, identity, and social value
- The absurdities of ideological certainty