Hidden City

The story unfolds across central London, including a tram depot, a landfill, and an Edmonton incinerator. Key investigations pass beneath Oxford Street in a hidden archive, revealing a city where public spaces conceal secret histories. The setting blends bureaucratic institutions with gritty urban locations, underscoring how secrets are embedded in ordinary places.

🕵️ Conspiracy

A mysterious film prompts a chase that uncovers a hidden government project and a web of cover-ups. The search takes James and Sharon through archives, decommissioned sites, and secretive facilities, highlighting how power can obscure truth. The danger lies as much in institutions' silence as in visible threats.

🗃️ Memory

Fragments of film become unreliable evidence, forcing the protagonists to piece together events from partial footage. The archive is a battleground where memory can be manipulated by what is kept—or discarded. The story argues that memory, documentation, and context determine what the public can know.

🏛️ Power

The Ministry of Defence and related agencies are shown shaping reality through secrecy and control of information. James and Sharon are subjected to interrogation and surveillance as they seek the truth. The film questions who benefits from concealment and at what cost to individuals and communities.