2222

About this film

In the year 2222, in a world of total digital surveillance, a young man named Ainur lives alone in his apartment. His only friend is a sweet little robot named Yuki. When he receives the belongings of his late mother, Ainur finds among them an ancient scroll — a shezhire, his family's two-hundred-year-old lineage record. Using an AI system, he begins reconstructing his ancestors' lost memories: a father, a mother, a childhood from the distant past. But the memories turn out not to be real — they were generated two hundred years ago by his biological parents, so that he would one day know his roots. A trace left on the generation file leads Ainur to Bulat, a hacker who decodes old archives. With Bulat's help, Ainur learns how he was created, and at what cost he earned the right to memory — and to a name.

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