Parity Pipeline

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Miles is a 23 year old kid from a broken working class family, brought up by his single alcoholic father. We meet Miles on campus of a college he could never afford, where his innate gifts as a sculptor gained him a scholarship. Mysteriously, he pulls around his homemade clay in a red wagon and bumps into a rich white girl, Chloe, whose family is powerful at Google and led her interests in multi media art and hacking. These opposites attract and their curiosity keeps them together. Miles is obsessed with creating his senior thesis piece Reproduction, which is a woman pregnant with a man pregnant with a baby. He has been out nights in the rain, digging mud out of the ground, to finish in time to present for his thesis project. There’s an unspoken thing about this sculpture- when you look at it, the baby seems to move. He wheels it into his professor Ricky’s class. Ricky is a bitter previous winner of the coveted art prize at this university, and now teaching, and seems to have it out for Miles. Perhaps because his work is created from raw talent, something Ricky doesn’t have, perhaps because Ricky prefers the young pretty female students better. Although Miles’ sculpture is moving to all in the room, Ricky fails him and tells him to try harder. Chloe offers to hack the system and change the grade. She also suggests that Miles go talk to the Dean Meryl Yardley, a renowned photographer turned administrator. Chloe advises that he must reach his goal of showing at the end of the year Gallery show they’ve all been working towards, and that Ricky’s pass or fail may not effect that but she should change the grade just in case. That night they go dancing at a club where Chloe creates a light show, and fall into bed together in Chloe’s dorm room. In the morning, Chloe shows Miles she has changed the grade. Miles makes an appointment to see Dean Yardley. When he walks into her office, he feels at home amongst the carefully placed orchids and the art on the walls. There is a strange connection, that leads Yardley to Miles’ campus studio to learn how he makes his own clay and to see Reproduction. Impressed, she offers to bring him to her best friend Toni Romio’s house, a talented trans artist who has had enormous international success with her provocative sculptures. Yardley gives Miles a chance to defend his sculpture to her. In their interactions, Miles overhears Yardley confesses she can’t find good models for her latest work, and Miles offers to model for her. One night in a moment of creative despair, Yardley takes him up on it. They begin an affair, Miles gets into the Gallery show, and he feels supported for the first time in his life. Chloe, at the trickiest of times, finds out she is pregnant, and decides to keep the baby as a kind of creative experiment. Miles is confused, and memories of his dad’s abuse of his mom, his mom’s suicide, and questions about what he is responsible for, class, gender, and fate, all begin to collide, as it seems his sculpture 'Reproduction' has taken on a life of its own.