Title: Dystopia Boy
Subtitle: The Unauthorized Files
Description: Your TV is watching you.

Your cell phone listens to everything you say.

There are no secrets, no quiet moments.  Even your thoughts may not be private.

Behind the veil of democracy, free enterprise and popular culture, the Watchers – a secret branch of the US government – spy on the American public through hidden cameras in practically every modern appliance. Then one day, a young man named Joe Blake looks back through the monitor, locks eyes with an aging Watcher and says, “I know you're out there.  I know you're listening.”
 
Systems at the Watcher compound go dark, malfunctions run rampant, and the agency begins a meticulous investigation into Joe's life.  Through the surveillance record, we watch as he grows into a troubled rock star witnessing the downward spiral of the American economy from the road.  We witness his fight against a corrupt corporate government supposedly by and for the people, and the end of our way of life in the small compromises that go overlooked or unnoticed.

Joe wages war on the system, but can he complete his mission before the Watchers track him down through his own past?  In a race against time, who wins: the people or the money?
Subjects: near future, science fiction, technology, 1984, economy, America, surveillance, TV, watching, band, corporations, government, money, poverty, abuse, cameras
Places: Portland
Time periods: 2032