Watch on Vision Video When an organization calling itself “The Real Deal” shuts down the country’s satellite communications systems and replaces the airwaves with cryptic messages about the state of the world, a group of Catholic high school students must decide how to respond.

Imagine that all satellite-based media in the United States suddenly stops functioning. In an instant, you can’t place or receive a phone call, access the Internet, watch TV, even operate a GPS. More alarming still, all your media devices begin displaying brief, cryptic messages…from something called “The Real Deal.” Each message contains a “fact,” one shocking statistic regarding the actual condition of the world today. The messages come faster and faster. Incredibly, they seem not to repeat. The cacophony reaches a crescendo. It threatens to overwhelm you. And then it’s over, as suddenly as it began. What then? The Real Deal opens with this attack, seen through the eyes of 17-year-old Mouse Mussendon, a misfit senior at a posh private school in Los Angeles. Funny, articulate, sensitive and self-critical, Mouse couldn’t be more unlike her sunny, privileged classmates. But now, with graduation only weeks away, Mouse finds herself frightened of the future, frozen by the choices that adult life demands. T The Real Deal is part mystery, part contemporary satire, part techno-thriller, and part call to action. Ultimately and finally, it is the chronicle of one brave girl’s journey towards self-discovery – toward The Real Deal.

Director: Daniel DeSantis

Starring: Danny Dola, Michael Waltman, Alan Inoue, Meghan Caves