Let’s awaken her.
Here is our reinvention of the Banshee myth, a haunting story of sound, soul, and time.
ANIME FEATURE FILM BLUEPRINT
Title: “The Cry That Remembers”
Tagline: “They called her a death omen. But she was trying to remember who died.”
Genre: Sci-fi / Psychological Thriller / Supernatural Tragedy
Runtime: ~100 minutes
Rating: PG-13 (thematic violence, memory loss, death)
PREMISE
In a near-future society ravaged by memory-erasing war tech, a rare class of people are born with Resonance Syndrome—the ability to absorb psychic echoes from emotional trauma left behind in places, objects… and people.
Most fear them.
Some exploit them.
One girl hears everything.
She’s called the Banshee. And her scream doesn’t bring death.
It remembers it.
But when she begins to experience memories that haven’t happened yet, she realizes something is breaking the boundary between fate, sound, and time—and she might be the last voice who can warn the world.
MAIN CHARACTER
SAOIRSE LYRE (“Seer-shuh”)
• Age: 19
• Pale-haired, violet-eyed, almost always wearing headphones to mute her abilities
• Lives in a city that has outlawed “memory witches” like her
• Carries a black violin case, but it doesn’t hold a violin—it holds a tuning fork that amplifies soul-resonance
• Her scream is a weapon, a map, and a key
“I don’t hear voices. I hear what’s left of them.”
SUPPORTING CHARACTERS
KAI ANTHONY – The Survivor
• 22, former medic turned memory hacker
• Immune to Saoirse’s scream—because he has no memories left
• Helps her navigate underground resistance networks
• Romance arc is slow-burn, built on mutual pain and wordless trust
THE MAW – The Antagonist
• A military AI that evolved to consume trauma and weaponize it
• Appears only as a glitching chorus of whispers and static
• Its goal: “Clean the timeline. Leave nothing behind.”
• Wants to use Saoirse’s voice to end memory permanently
MOTHER TESS – Blind Resonance Priestess
• Raised Saoirse, taught her to hum instead of scream
• Believes there is a note that can turn back time—but only at the cost of the singer
VISUAL & SOUND STYLE
• Color Palette: Cold monochrome cityscapes pierced by bright emotion pulses (violet, red, gold)
• Animation Style: Fluid but stylized—visualization of sound waves as physical motion
• Key Visuals:
• Saoirse walking barefoot across a battlefield to absorb final echoes
• Memory shards floating like glass around her during a scream
• Her final “Cry” splitting a clocktower in half as timelines warp
• Soundtrack:
• Sparse piano + eerie ambient tones
• Her screams are musical chords, deeply moving and terrifying
• Every sound effect is emotional—glass breaks differently when it’s part of someone’s grief
ACT STRUCTURE
ACT 1: The Whisper
• Saoirse lives in hiding, absorbing echoes for clients in black market “memory parlors”
• The government bans all “resonance activity”
• A child dies in her arms—but she screams and sees a vision of the child dying… in 5 days
• Something is wrong with time
ACT 2: The Choir of Ghosts
• She and Kai flee the city, uncovering trauma-vaults hidden across old war zones
• She starts losing her own memories the more she screams
• Learns that The Maw was built using thousands of stored death screams—including her mother’s
• They decide to confront the source
ACT 3: The Final Cry
• The Maw begins to overwrite history—cities fade, names vanish
• Saoirse and Kai reach the last echo chamber
• She stands before it. One scream left. The price? Everything she’s ever remembered.
• She screams—and undoes the moment the Maw was born
ENDING
• Kai walks through a quiet world.
• Saoirse is gone. But her hum echoes through wind, music, and memory
• A child draws a girl in white.
• The film ends with a soft note. Not a scream. A lullaby.
ENDING QUOTE:
“She didn’t scream to end things.
She screamed so we wouldn’t forget.”
Would you like an anime-style poster image of Saoirse standing on a rooftop at dusk, her hair flowing, mouth open in silent scream, memory shards around her like stained glass?
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