Note from the Adapter: In 2021, a film adaptation of Zamyatin's We completed post-production. The trailer circulated online. Then: silence. No theatrical release. No streaming distribution. No official statement explaining why a completed film simply vanished. This adaptation exists in conversation with his original work, built on his foundation, indebted to his vision. But more to the point: I want to draw attention to Zamyatin's original work and the suppressed film. The suppression of We, whether in 1921 or 2021, is evidence of a crime. Some forms of Paradise are indistinguishable from Hell. Every dystopia you know began here. Before Orwell's 1984. Before Huxley's Brave New World. Before the genre even had a name, Yevgeny Zamyatin wrote We. The first great warning about what happens when humanity trades freedom for perfect order. Now, a century after Zamyatin's prophetic vision, this radical adaptation transplants his crystalline nightmare into our own moment: neural implants, biometric surveillance, AI superintelligence, and the seductive promise of collective consciousness. In a world where isolation is the only sin, connection is the only salvation. Daniel (D-503), Lead Systems Architect of the Integral Corporation, has helped build humanity's bridge to transcendence: a neural network that will finally end human loneliness by merging eight hundred million minds into perfect unity. No more miscommunication. No more separation. No more that terrible gap between consciousnesses. Paradise, at last. But when Daniel encounters Ivy (I-330), a woman whose very existence disrupts every optimization protocol, he begins to experience something the system was designed to eliminate: doubt. Jealousy. Love. The irrational emotions that make humans messy, unpredictable, and dangerously individual. Caught between Ivy's dangerous resistance and Olivia's (O-90) gentle compliance, between the woman who makes him feel alive and the one who makes him feel safe, Daniel discovers that even algorithmically-approved relationships can't eliminate the chaos of genuine human connection. As he documents his own corruption in secret records, Daniel discovers that the Benefactor, the artificial superintelligence guiding humanity toward collective consciousness, has been watching all along. His contamination wasn't a bug. It was always the plan. From the glass towers of Silicon Valley to the underground resistance networks, from scheduled "resonance events" to the final choice between integration and isolation, this adaptation of Zamyatin's masterwork reveals what happens when the cage becomes so comfortable, so perfectly calibrated to our desires, that we forget we're imprisoned. If Zamyatin had written with full knowledge of neural interfaces, social credit systems, and artificial superintelligence, what would his glass city have looked like? For readers who loved: 1984 by George OrwellBrave New World by Aldous HuxleyThe Circle by Dave EggersNever Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro A contemporary reimagining of Yevgeny Zamyatin's groundbreaking 1921 dystopian novel: the book that inspired every totalitarian nightmare you've ever read, now updated for the age of AI, neural networks, and voluntary surveillance.