INDEX ZERO [Edinburgh Film Festival]

In search of a better life for their unborn baby, desperate couple Kurt and Eve sneak over the border into the United States of Europe. Once inside the fortress nation, they are picked up by an immigration patrol and separated due to Eve’s pregnancy, so Kurt must do what he can to reunite them while conforming to the rules of this brave new world.

Index Zero’s plot is based around the Sustainability Index, a complex calculation the USE’s government applies to every individual, quantifying the monetary expenditure it takes to sustain a person balanced against how their myriad circumstances allow for maintaining themselves. Essentially, single numbers are used to rate and rank the financial worth of human lives. The concept

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