Otto; or, Up with Dead People

Otto is a neo-Goth zombie with an identity crisis. He looks and smells like a zombie but is not sure that he actually is one. One day, he ducks into an alley to escape a bunch of hooligans and spots a poster announcing auditions for a zombie film. Soon, he meets up with filmmaker/revolutionary Medea Yarn, who is convinced that Otto, as a confused zombie, is the perfect candidate to demonstrate the effects of advanced capitalism on individuals. Medea decides to make a film about Otto, while simultaneously shooting a film about a gay zombie revolt against consumerist society. After moving in with an actor, Otto begins to remember fragments of his pre-zombie life with a sweet boyfriend. As Medea directs the final scene of her gay zombie film, Otto struggles to access the human emotions buried beneath his zombie exterior.