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Kami is about those who are almost invisible in the most visible of places within a city. A teenager, a busker, an immigrant street-vendor: they are usually overlooked, passed by, and unnoticed by those who are more concerned with consumerism. Here, three lives are abstracted from the relentless stream of people and traffic that is the movement of city existence. Kami is in essence a spirit who touches these three individuals, whose paradoxical course is initiated by an uncharacteristic act of generosity. Each of the three characters passes on a gift: a tenderness, a beauty, a joy. Immersed in a world of noise and inane chatter they each exist in a space described by an interior score. An act of kindness can release a spirit that can flow in a different time, a redemptive time.
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Kami
Ren Amari is the driven inventor of a revolutionary new drug. OtherLife expands the brain's sense of time and creates virtual reality directly in the user's mind. With OtherLife, mere seconds in real life feel like hours or days of exciting adventures. As Ren and her colleagues race around the clock to launch OtherLife, the government muscles in to use the drugs as a radical solution to prison overcrowding. They will create virtual cells where criminals serve long sentences in just minutes of real time. When Ren resists, she finds herself an unwilling guinea pig trapped in a prison cell in her mind. She must escape before she descends into madness, and then regain control of OtherLife before others suffer the same fate.
