Neon Brothers

According to Alice Berti, it sounds like living with no guarantees, no optimism, no expectations for the future. But with a strong desire for revolution and friendship.

In a post-Brexit UK dystopic setting, you have two options: you can have a bourgeois life working for the major corporations – sticking to their standards – or you can choose your own way, joining a gang and fighting with other hopeless people like you, in order to increase the power of the Federation, a holding that profits from broadcasting challenges among outcasts.

Alice creates six young characters each very unique, each embodying the uncertainties of being a post-Millennial twentysomething in the 21st century: a magmatic and very current theme, peppered with ultra pop flavor, 90s videogames and tributes to shonen-manga fighting tropes.

The result is her personal generational anthem, between realism and dystopia, strewn with echoes from Scott Pilgrim, The Warriors, The End of the F*****g world, Hunger Games and a hint of Gorillaz style.

Action, fellowship and deep human connections are the weapons to resist the pervasive cynicism of a prepackaged sleepy paradise created for those who passively accept the status quo, or the purgatory next to it, in which live those who gave up.