It Takes Three

The Sci-Fi Romantic Independent film WITHOUT WARD explores what happens when an entire society relinquishes their everyday rights, to literally live in their dreams. Realizing that technology and software have made it impossible for people to connect, a notable inventor Ward (Martin Landau), creates a drug which allows people to connect by living in their dreams. Over the course of 20 years, half the world ends up on the drug, and a one-world government called Contractualism, forms. In Contractualism everyone must follow their contract. If your contract doesn't specifically say you can do something, you can't. The only way to break the law is to breech the contract. The penalty for breach of contract is death. 50% of the world's population ends up on the drug, while 25% of the world becomes the Union of United Esquires; lawyers with guns that control everything. The other 25% must continue living their regular lives as is. For 20 years people all over the world live in their wildest dreams doing whatever their mind can conjure up, until Ward dies and the drug is longer available, since contractually, Ward was the only person that could make it. With the drug gone, but the contracts still in place, The Druggies (the 50% of the population that had taken the drug) are under house arrest because their contracts don't specifically say they can go outside. Faced with death for breaching their contracts, everyone obeys, except for one family's oldest son, Garp (Michael Gladis), who had no desire to comply with his contract. Driven by his longing to satisfy his sexual needs while trying to fulfill his dream, Garp attempts to a girl across the street, Scout (Alexis Dziena) naked through her window. What starts as simple mission, turns into a deep, quirky, and emotional journey for connection. Just like Ward had wanted. At its core, WITHOUT WARD is about one man who saves the entire world, by standing naked in his window.