SUBROSA
Cast
VIVAAN
Vivaan is all-too-human.
He cares not for the how or why, only for the beautiful result.
Young, rich and glorious, he is living the dream... until...
He comes face-to-face with his mortality, in the form of a being called... MANON.
MANON
Traveled the light-ways. Rode the echos...
His people held the secret of the prism, and with it...
the cosmos became their playground.
Their gift was golden... and they would share it with every step, in every land, within every footprint left.
They blessed as gods blessed... walked as gods walked... heads held high amongst all of the lesser beings... the lower forms that they encountered within the shadows of their lower, base existences.
But all life is grand... no less than a miracle.
This, they would learn in an epic lesson of humility... a cosmic comeuppance...
on a place called Earth.
POPE
Her third day on the job it happened.
Routine stop. Driver swayed a little, maybe tired... maybe a spill... routine.
Lights, stop, approach... who knew...
Then the shooting started, bullets singing... coming from several different angles. She was hit first and... her partner froze.
It should have been over, but moments like these reveals the soul of a man... or a woman.
Five arrests and thirteen bodies later, she’s being treated for a couple of bullet wounds, multiple lacerations and contusions, a possible concussion and...
she’s wondering if someone can get her a decent cup of coffee... because...
well...
coffee...
DETECTIVE CELESTINE
Who she was, where she came from, genes and tribes... all mean nothing to CELESTINE.
She is what she has chosen to be, what she has made of herself.
Life is simple.
She lives it one breath at a time.
Today, this moment, this breath not promised... is all that matters.
Or so she thought...
ZOYA
Blessed and highly favored.
Within her is the divine formula... evidence of the grand celestial design.
In her reflexion she sees the true face of God... and it is a twisted lie.
A terrible truth that she can not live with...
DELANEY
Delaney got...nice... at a high school graduation party...
and the secrets of the universe were exposed to him.
And then he passed out.
When he awoke, he retained little of what had transpired the night before, except one real truth...
that it was all a game... all of it...
Not about right or wrong, winning or losing...
and it was temporary... just a moment...
like the blink of an eye.
But he had been dealt the coolest magical hand...
and he was going to play it.
DR SAMAR
At 49, after collapsing on the metro, Samar was given a stage 4 diagnosis and a ticket... 2-3 months tops.
To him, this was unacceptable.
Four decades later, he still lives... and well...
and no one can explain this miracle...
except SAMAR...
And he’s insane.
