Amazing Stories: The City Inside

Joey is a Reality Controller in near-future Delhi. Her job is supervising the multimedia, multi-reality livestreams of Indi, one of South Asia’s fastest-rising online celebrities—who also happens to be her college ex. Rudra is a recluse estranged from his wealthy and powerful family, now living in an impoverished immigrant neighborhood. When his father’s death pulls him back into his family’s orbit, an impulsive job offer from Joey becomes his only escape from the life he never wanted. But as Joey and Rudra become enmeshed in multiple conspiracies, their lives start to spin out of control—complicated by dysfunctional relationships, corporate loyalty and the never-ending pressures of surveillance capitalism. 

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