The Fix

In a semi-futuristic Cape Town where breathing masks and air filters are everyday fixtures, youth culture proceeds as usual. Experts struggle to control increasingly severe reactions to the toxic compounds infecting earth’s atmosphere, while ELLA (22) – an image-conscious wild child – struggles to cope with the sting of her first rejection. When ELLA takes a new designer drug at her ex-boyfriend’s house party, she inadvertently becomes an unintended test subject. Instead of the escapist fix she was expecting, the new drug is in fact a specially designed retroviral that introduces foreign DNA into the human genome. Her self-destructive gesture triggers a shocking transformation. As her body adapts, ELLA is forced to face a self she does not recognize. When she is discovered by SOLOMON (28) – the unlikely genius responsible for the drug’s creation – the secret he shares reveals that the human species faces imminent extinction. ELLA is the key to our salvation, but only if her mind proves to be as elastic and resilient as her body. From a covert research facility to the back alleys of the gang- regulated Cape Flats, from the dangerous aspirations of powerful corporations to the most underestimated and disenchanted young minds, THE FIX fuses the action / sci-fi elements of films like Species and Resident Evil with the gritty youth culture found in films like Project X, Thirteen and Kids.