Set in a stark, occasionally ominous near-future, Connected marks a major departure for the world's most famous sex symbol: Anderson turns in a raw, brave performance as a beauty queen who's aging under the harsh glow of her screens and feeds, drifting from her followers, friends, and family, and desperately seeking, yes, connection.

She plays Jackie, an AuraCycle workout instructor who performs for an online audience and listens to self-help podcasts (voiced by Fonda) that promise eternal life in a fast-approaching new world. Jackie heads to a wellness retreat that's both cultishly out-there and eerily verisimilar to improve her connectivity, where—okay, just watch it yourself.

It's short, but fully-imagined, skeptically speculative, and finely textured. It's a future you can feel in your gut, which is exactly the kind we like to traffic in, both in video, in editorial, and on Terraform, our ongoing speculative fiction venture.