Vox

In a chilling near-future America, Dr. Jean McClellan, a cognitive linguist, awakens to a world where women have been stripped of their fundamental rights. A new, fundamentalist government has taken power, enacting a law that limits women to speaking a mere one hundred words per day. Each woman, including Jean and her young daughter, is fitted with a 'word tracker' bracelet that delivers painful electric shocks for exceeding the draconian limit. As women are systematically banned from working, owning property, and even reading, their voices are silenced both literally and figuratively. Unexpectedly, Jean is called upon by the President's brother to use her linguistic expertise on a covert government project. Faced with the stark reality of her own oppression and the burgeoning resistance, Jean must decide whether to comply with the regime or risk everything to reclaim not just her own voice, but the collective voices of all women, before silence becomes permanent.