Dispatch Panel (2022)

Darcy and Manu are a young couple who live in Zone 6. They are ruled over by an authoritarian government whose solution to overpopulation is to exterminate the "undesirables", through a system known as the Dispatch Panel. Darcy's product quota at work has decreased because he comes home early to help Manu with her health condition. He is unsuccessful in his desperate attempts to get Manu medicine and she is worried that Darcy might get in trouble for helping her. Her worries are validated when Darcy is dragged off to trial at the Dispatch Panel. His sister volunteers as a character witness to save Darcy from execution, but she tells the panel of his wife's condition to save him. The panel then decides that Manu will be executed instead of Darcy. His heart is broken. Upon his journey home he sees that the medicine Manu needs has been delivered by the Clerk. Darcy is overjoyed that his wife will be saved. But when he enters the house, he sees that Manu has succumbed to her illness.