The Lagging Frame

In the industrial sprawl of New Coventry, a charismatic lifestyle vlogger is shattered when her husband is crushed by a defective automated guided vehicle at the Helix Dynamics plant. What begins as a landmark product liability suit against the manufacturer mutates into a fever-dream of betrayal, as a single dropped frame in her live rescue stream reveals not a grieving wife, but a predator calculating the kill. Inspired by the cold mechanics of Harris v. Raymond Corporation, this neo-noir peels back the perfumed skin of a perfect marriage to reveal the blood-rust machinery beneath.