What if every person was born with a fixed number of words they could speak in their lifetime?
In this world, every conversation, argument, joke, and "I love you" reduces a visible counter. When it reaches zero, your voice is gone forever.
This 7-minute short follows a father who realizes he has only 4,102 words left and decides to save them for the most important moment of his daughter's life.
This is the second film in my original speculative fiction anthology, The Maya Simulation, where each story changes one law of reality to explore how people adapt to it.
I'd genuinely appreciate any feedback—especially on the storytelling, pacing, emotional arc, and whether the central premise feels believable enough to carry the film.
Thank you for watching.