Traitless

2017, 20 minutes

Traitless follows an introvert whose life is changed when he is offered a personality-altering pill.

Lucas is an awkward 21-year-old, who lacks everything he thinks is important. He has no confidence, no charisma and finds it hard to deal with life generally. He constantly fantasizes about being a better version of himself. On the night of his birthday party, Lucas meets a masked man who persuades him to buy a pill that can transform him into an extrovert, who oozes confidence, can talk to and attract people - the man Lucas has always wanted to be. After the interaction with the masked man, Lucas wakes up engulfed with the confidence and charisma he's been wishing for the last 21 years. He's confident, outgoing, and doesn't suffer from the same social anxiety that has been crippling him his whole life. However, while he's admiring the new Lucas, the man he's always wanted to be; his friends find his new self unsettling and Lucas's life only gets harder. When new Lucas faces an internal battle with old Lucas, which version of him will triumph?

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Companies involved in this production

• University of Portsmouth