The world this film builds is suffocating by design: a government so total it doesn't need to oppress you, it just needs to own what you can do. Children with the ability to see life energy itself become weapons, tools, investments. Nothing explodes. Nobody screams. The horror is quiet, and it stays quiet. The art is deliberately flat, deliberately colorless, it's the only honest visual language for a society that has already crushed hope into bureaucratic routine. You watch a girl make one real connection in a world designed to prevent them, and that small act of friendship becomes the only rebellion that matters.
In a grim, crowded future on Mars, an all-powerful government holds control over everything. The hope of a dying humanity lies with a secret organization that abducts gifted children and trains them to see the life energy of every living thing. Its school, EYES, sits in a vast forest far underground, away from the polluted city above. Eve, stripped of her memories and belongings, befriends an older student and must uncover her lost past. Meanwhile a boy from the streets sets out to rescue her, and her parents wait, powerless, hoping to see their daughter one last time.