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The story

During a pandemic-era sweep of Los Angeles’s Skid Row, Prospero, a disgraced doctor, arranges a reckoning for the brother who betrayed him. The contemporary setting gives his plan immediate material consequences: people caught inside it do not have the security of stepping off a stage when the scene is over.

Miranda, Ferdinand and the encampment community refuse to remain pieces in the design. His daughter’s connection with an EMT draws the future beyond the boundary of his grievance, while the people living outside his plan have needs his control cannot resolve. Shakespeare’s original language meets systems of displacement in a story about who gets to arrange another person’s life. Prospero must confront whether completing his reckoning matters more than allowing others to live beyond it. The adaptation turns the promise of mastery into a choice about relinquishing power.

Comparable films

These are shorthand for audience, tone or cinematic language.

Romeo + Juliet — Shakespeare meets urgent contemporary visual language.

The Florida Project — Urban marginality remains visible beyond the central family.

Comparisons describe tone and audience; no affiliation or endorsement is implied.

Rights & availability

Adaptation of Shakespeare’s The Tempest. Script available upon request.

Scripts and supporting story materials are available through the controlled request process.