Hum

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Helen Phillips delivers a tense near-future thriller centered on May, a mother who loses her job to artificial intelligence. To clear her family's mounting debts, she undergoes an experimental procedure to make her face invisible to the ubiquitous surveillance cameras of a crumbling city. Haunted by climate change and constant digital tracking, May takes her family to a lush botanical preserve fo…

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