Nicholle Griffiths

Apathy Nicholle Griffiths

Apathy is set in the future, where scientists have developed a drug which they believe will 'cure' mental illness and criminality by numbing the areas of the brain responsible for emotions. Without sadness or anger, the world will be a better place. However, it soon becomes apparent that the government want to use the drug for more than that, and decide that administering the drug to everyone is the only way to retain control of the people. With every drug, there are complications and risks - how will people behave without their emotions? and does everybody really want to have their emotions taken away? What if there are some harmful, or even life threatening side effects? Fliss is a scientist working for the government who comes to realise, with the help of her friend Brona and a man named Alec, that the 'cure' is not what it seems, and unravels the governments plans. Will she go against the people she works for and fight to stop them from forcing people to have the cure? How will she cope when she realises that her emotions are returning, and everything she was promised was a lie? What will she discover when she plans to take down the person responsible for ruining the lives of the people? They need to get out the city. But is what is beyond the fence any better than what's inside it?