#zero city

Imagine if your social media score floated above your head — visible to everyone, always.

That is Zero City. And Cedrick Osei-Barnes has the worst number in his district.

When a stranger slips him a note with three words that should not exist, he is pulled into a world beyond the city walls — where the score means nothing, and the truth is more dangerous than any number.

"The system feeds on human hope. And the only thing it cannot process is the one thing it was never designed to contain."

📖 ZERO CITY by Oberd Jay

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"The number is nothing. You are not nothing."

— Cedrick Osei-Barnes, ZERO CITY

In Zero City, every citizen wears their social score projected above their head in nanodust. Blue scores are invisible. Cedrick is sixteen and has nothing — until a slip of paper, a girl named Rachael, and a truth the system cannot contain change everything.

Dystopian fiction for the age of algorithms.

ZERO CITY -- Now Available

In Zero City, your worth is a number -- projected above your head in nanodust for every citizen to see.

Cedrick is sixteen, blue-scored, and invisible. Then his upstairs neighbour slips a piece of paper into his hand with three words on it. Everything he thought was real begins to ring like a bell he can never un-hear.

Outside the city walls he meets Rachael -- sharp, fearless, and four months ahead of him in every way that matters. Together they uncover the truth: the score is backed by nothing. The system feeds on human hope.

"The number is nothing. You are not nothing." -- Cedrick Osei-Barnes

A dystopian story about two young people who discover that waking up is the most dangerous -- and most human -- thing you can do.

By Oberd Jay

Deaf Crocodile Films releasing “Zerograd (Zero City)” on bluray for the first time!

Deaf Crocodile, in association with partner Seagull Films, announced today that it’s releasing director Karen Shakhnazarov’s surreal, Kafkaesque satire ZEROGRAD (ZERO CITY) from 1988 for the first time ever on Blu-ray in North America in a stunning new 2K restoration from Mosfilm. The disc is currently available for pre-order ahead of its October 25th street date, with a digital release to follow…