PHILO: Pictures From Home

At the outer edge of the galaxy, a great explorer ship with a crew of thousands has crash landed on Philo, a small, bare, uninhabited planet offering scant resources. Unable to rise again or make contact with anyone, the interstellar explorers are forced to become settlers. Given what they have to work with, they are hugely successful.

A thousand years later, their now severely overpopulated planet has developed new concerns. Eighteen-year-old Anika Berlen flees for her life from the dreaded Machtpolis, the arm of their totalitarian government. Her crime? Failure to be adequately productive. She is addicted to the Scenics, holographic pictures of planet Earth brought by the original explorer-settlers. Stirred by these vivid images of her people's long-lost past and her deep desire to experience that lost world first hand, her work suffers, and she is selected for elimination.