Twenty years after the world froze, what's left of humanity lives in the canyons of the Ethiopian highlands, kept warm by a machine nobody remembers how to build. Heat is rationed to a household, not a person. Lose your name from the register and you don't survive the night. The only way to move between sectors is a marriage assignment, and the procedure takes six exchanges, recorded on magnetic wire and carried by hand across days of frozen track. Ayana has weeks left on her household. Her assignment is a man in Sector Seven she has never seen. THE SEAM, Episode One of six. #TheSeam #FrozenEarth #SciFiSeries #Worldbuilding #shortfilm