A Modest Proposal

Imagine a world where death and old age are nearly defeated. A happy, roomy place where clean drinking water is available year-round, and no one is ever in a hurry. Would you like to live in such a world? What if it meant restricting your individual liberties in pursuit of a collective happiness? Set in a near-future, imposed utopia ruled by population control, A Modest Proposal follows the lives of various citizens caught up in a system of government-encouraged suicide, where life is reduced to a precarious game of numbers. Through multiple storylines that converge in a hospital waiting room, A Modest Proposal considers how one person's worth can be qualified over another's, in a world that values collectivism over rights of the individual.