Inflicted

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Pain is pain. It all hurts the same.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Inflicted with dark desire one man chooses between idyllic pretense and disturbing reality. Haunted by the silence of deep space an engineer chases an eerie melody. Torn between penance and pride a dishonored prince challenges the course of history.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Suffering cracks our hearts and splinters our minds. It scars and alters us in irreversible ways. Yet while pain breaks us apart it also binds us together. Our broken pieces can never rejoin as they once were but they fit together to create new and distinctive wholes. Like the Japanese art of </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>kintsugi</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> we can fill the velvety darkness of our scars with gold.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Inflicted with life an intelligent machine questions the illogic of family. Tempted by the desire to die a shop clerk confronts the promise of his life. Offered the chance to transform his disfigurement a ruined being looks to the smallest of lives for acceptance.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>An amalgamation of science fiction and fantasy subgenres </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Inflicted</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> invites you to peer into your own pain examine your scars and remember you are not alone. Pain binds us all and how we face our brokenness redefines us. Immerse yourself in the brokenness of others and come away with a new understanding of self.</span></p>