FUTURESTATES | PIA | ITVS

http://futurestates.tv/episodes/pia

San Francisco, 2063. A service android brand-named PIA has replaced the majority of third tier labor in the United States. Hospital nurses, hotel workers and other maintenance driven industries all use the sleek, black-clad, human-organ powered machine to supplement their human workforce.

Syama and Rakesh Raval appear on the path to a bright future together. But before they can realize their dreams, Rakesh is struck down by a sudden heart failure. Overcome with grief, Syama agrees to donate Rakesh's organs to future technology research.

Two years later, a load of unregistered PIA robots bound for the black market are discovered in the cargo hold of an abandoned truck by the San Francisco police department. The PIAs are left in the evidence room overnight, where one of the units flickers on. Distorted images appear and skitter across the robot's memory screen. The android wanders out of the building and through the San Francisco night with a purpose, eventually ending up inside Syama's apartment.

Startled by the intrusion, Syama grabs a weapon and intercepts the malfunctioning service android. In a tense standoff, Syama corners the PIA and interrogates it. Speaking with a fragmented memory and a fractured voice, the PIA android reveals the secret of her mysterious and sudden appearance.

PIA is a futuristic love story that challenges the viewer to reconsider the meaning of humanity, relationships, and family.

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Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• androids
• cyborgs
• robots
• science fiction
• futuristic
• speculative fiction
• Tanuj Chopra
• ITVS
• Futurestates

[evgeniy13]

of all organs only brain could make such effect,

initially I + the movie, but then I realised it's ANY organs, such as heart, they used for the robots. It's completely unrealistic for me, people with heart transplants do not remember their donor's past.

As for the memory upload to another body - it's rather likely to be true, cryonics is evidently works - what was done to the tiny worm, could be done to entire human connectome.

Heart doesn't feel, brain does. (which is of course less romantic)

[icedragoon707]

so beautiful... they dont make many movies like this in the world anymore :')