O'Dessa (2025)

O'Dessa is set in a post-apocalyptic future where plazma, a toxic, flammable substance similar to oil, has poisoned the landscape. Media mogul Plutonovich rules the airwaves from "Onederworld", a private island where dissenters are tortured and killed for entertainment of the masses, but whoever wins the competition is deemed "The One" and will have a wish granted as a reward. O'Dessa, seventh in a line of wandering musicians called ramblers, inherits her father's guitar after her mother's passing and after burning down her house, heads to the dangerous Satylite City to find her destiny. On the way, her guitar is stolen and pawned off. She sets off on a quest to return it, and as she does, she meets Euri Dervish, a musician and sex worker for the brutal Neon Dion, Plutonovich's main enforcer. O'Dessa and Euri fall in love and plan to run away to the safe city of Enid, but Dion catches them and threatens them both. Euri steals enough money from Dion to buy O'Dessa's guitar back and tells her to leave for Enid without him. Thinking she has departed, Euri insults Plutonovich during a concert in despair. O'Dessa confronts Dion, who cuts off her ring finger before dying in a confrontation. O'Dessa and Euri plan to marry, but due to his sedition he is shipped off to Onederworld and forced to dance for his life. O'Dessa travels there to rescue him and sings before Plutonovich and his court, successfully becoming "The One" despite all of her guitar's strings but one being clipped. She wishes for Euri back, which is granted, but Plutonovich has given him a mind-altering "face job" that has left him brain-dead. O'Dessa sets her guitar on fire and destroys Plutonovich's plazma-powered media network, killing herself, Euri, and Plutonovich himself and freeing the masses from his control. As the film ends, plazma begins to fade from the landscape and the citizens vow to remember O'Dessa, spreading her music and message of hope.