Logline: When the mummies of the Founding Fathers descend on the Capitol to preserve the status quo, an ambitious Senate staffer finds herself torn between her vision for the future of democracy and good old-fashioned survival.
- Feature
- Comedy
- 127 Pages
Synopsis
Alex Hernandez is tired of this shit. She’s been chief of staff to a senator for years now, and nothing’s really changed – in fact, the Senate just acquitted an obviously guilty president of high crimes and misdemeanors. No longer satisfied with sitting around waiting on inches of change at a time and listening to politicians claim to be living out the Founders’ intentions, she drafts the most ambitious piece of legislation since the birth of the nation and starts circulating it all around the building.
Unfortunately, the majority caucus forces a vote on one of Alex’s other bills, planning to defeat it and score some easy political points. To make matters worse, Alex’s boss doesn’t appreciate her impatience and threatens to fire her if she can’t clean this up. Jayda Mason, Alex’s best friend and staffer to another senator, tries to support her but admits it’s not looking good.
Things take a turn following an encounter with the mummy of Alexander Hamilton in a coffee line! Alex and Jayda soon discover that the entire opposition caucus has been massacred in the cloak room and the minority party can now take control of the Senate. Their first act is to pass Alex’s smaller bill and schedule a media scrum to score some political points of their own, but when the Founding Fathers actually appear on the steps of the Senate Chamber, the opposition caucus is wiped out as well!
Alex and Jayda escape safely and seek out the Senate Librarian, who tells them the Founders are back to protect their original design and that the only way to break the curse is to destroy Alex’s monumental bill before it can be passed by newly appointed senators! With copies spread all over the building and time running out, Alex will have to choose between truly doing what the Founders intended or realizing her dream of a better future for the country. But if she does decide to follow her heart, she just might find that it stops beating in the grip of decayed, undead hands…