THE SLEEPERS

It’s 2070, and the world is running out of food and water. The Canadian government has come up with a solution to extend resources in a quickly changing climate: divide the population into two classes that take turns “sleeping” for months at a time. While one class sleeps, frozen in time, the other goes on with life until it’s their turn to be put under.

Welcome to the Sleep Regime.

Despite what the government claims, equality and classism still exist. 33-year-old Avery works for a company in Toronto trying desperately to produce and recycle more clean water. His mother is the Deputy Leader of the country and is responsible for implementing the Sleep Regime, so it’s no surprise Avery has been placed into the more privileged Class X. 32-year-old Piper is a working-class journalist who has been placed into Class Y, and is forced to sleep more often than those in Class X.

Piper and Avery’s worlds collide when they each learn about the government’s more permanent solution to the resource problem, a plan that puts Class Y’s very existence on the line. The unlikely pair work together to prevent the government from going through with a plan that would save the country for some, but not all.