


When Nico says he's only interested in saving Sara, Piper finally agrees to help and gives him a wristband for Sara. Nico returns to the Griffins and confronts Piper, who says she was concerned Nico was trying to expose their illegal business. When May tries to leave, William arrives and tries to kill her, but Michael uses a weaponized drone to fatally shoot William. May asks Michael if she can stay with him, to which he agrees. William leaves to silence May, which Piper calls May to warn her about. Piper overhears William's phone call with May and kicks him out of the house. William demands to see May again, but May continually refuses, claiming she recorded him offering her an illegal immunity wristband. Emmett and his team ultimately catch up to Sara, where he notes that Sara has yet to show symptoms of COVID-23 despite her exposure and is therefore immune. Sara knocks out one of the members and takes his hazmat suit before escaping the building. The "sanitation" department arrives to bag Lita and detain Sara. Nico ends up meeting with Emmett at a warehouse, revealing it to be a trap which Nico escapes.Īs Sara is waiting for Nico, Lita dies. When he goes to their house, the Griffins give Nico the phone number of their supposed supplier. Lester tells him the Griffins are the ones selling them. Nico contacts Lester to let him know that he's aware they are transporting illegal immunity wristbands. Nico promises to keep Sara from being taken. In the morning, Sara passes her temperature check, but Lita fails hers. Sara informs Nico about Lita's condition, leading Nico to spend the night by Sara's apartment door. He has also killed one of the infected individuals who escaped from the nearby Q-zone with a pocket knife. Emmett warns Sara that their apartment building has seen a rise in infections. One night, Lita begins to show symptoms of COVID-23 while the "sanitation" department, led by Emmett Harland, is forcing Sara's neighbor Alice out of her apartment after she becomes infected. May develops a bond with Michael Dozer, a disabled war veteran who works for Lester as a drone operator to keep track of their couriers. William is a former record executive having sex with May, a singer who makes a living online selling covers of classic songs. One of their biggest clients is the Griffins, Piper and William, whose daughter Emma has an auto-immune disorder. Nico works for Lester, who specializes in delivering packages to wealthy individuals. Nico Price, a motorbike courier with immunity, due to the fact he was infected with the virus, is in a virtual relationship with Sara Garcia, a young artist living with her grandmother Lita whose lockdown prohibits them from physical contact. In these camps, the infected are left to die or forcibly get better. In the United States, the nation's government is converted into a fascist police state and the people are required to take temperature checks on their cell phones while those infected with COVID-23 are taken from their homes against their will and forced into quarantine camps, also known as "Q-Zones" or concentration camps, where some fight back against the brutal restrictions.

It was overwhelmingly panned by critics, who said it did not take advantage of its premise, although Stormare's performance was praised by some.īy 2024, COVID-19 has been mutated into COVID-23 and the world is in its fourth Quarantine year. Songbird was released through premium video on demand on December 11, 2020, by STX Films. Filming took place around Los Angeles over July and August, becoming the first film to have production following the shutdown. The project was announced in May 2020, with screenwriters Adam Mason and Simon Boyes having come up with the idea in March, shortly after the pandemic stopped all film production the cast joined in June. Produced by Michael Bay, Adam Goodman, Andrew Sugerman and Eben Davidson, the film stars KJ Apa, Sofia Carson, Craig Robinson, Bradley Whitford, Peter Stormare, Alexandra Daddario, Paul Walter Hauser and Demi Moore. It was directed by Adam Mason, who wrote the screenplay with Simon Boyes. Songbird is a 2020 American dystopian science fiction thriller film based on the COVID-19 pandemic.
