But is this real, or just another show gimmick to raise audience ratings? As a favorite of the audience, one has nothing to fear, but a drop in popularity comes at the highest cost: death.įor an average man with an uninteresting life like Trevor Hills, this could mean serious trouble, but luckily Trevor is being helped by a mysterious voice who will guide him through American Arcadia‘s backstage to his freedom.
Under the eyes of countless anonymous observers, their carefree lives are tied to the show’s popularity ratings. But what the citizens of Arcadia don’t suspect is that they are playing a role in American Arcadia, a television show broadcast live 24/7, that has been on the air for decades. Arcadia is a 70’s retro-futuristic metropolis where everyone enjoys a life of luxury and comfort. Themes of art, immigration, reproductive rights, AIDS, assault, class, and betrayal, simmer beneath a dynamic plot that spans one life-altering year.In American Arcadia, players take on the role of two characters, each with their own gameplay, whose fates and lives are intertwined. It's for you to decide if she's a monster or a saint. Meanwhile, the Sicilian grandmothers on Staten Island are telling tall tales of a fugitive mermaid who lives in the New York Harbor. Each of these twenty-somethings attempts to rewrite their origin story as they find themselves knotted in the cross purposes of friendship and love, life and death. Nyro trades on his father's notoriety and Dare is keeping secrets. Mina wants Chry's family prestige, while Chry only wants to play the bass like Jaco Pastorius. Young Wall Streeter, Mina Berg, and her roommate, Chry Risk, strike up friendships with the volatile Danny Nyro and easygoing Dare Fiore.
New York City, 1985, the scaffolded and torchless Statue of Liberty is under reconstruction, the Twin Towers hum with money, and the clubs pulse with music. "A gorgeous riff of a New York City novel." ~Wayne Johnson, Multiple Pulitzer Prize-nominated author of THE RED CANOE, DON'T THINK TWICE, and SIX CROOKED HIGHWAYS