Borderland: Love and severance on the new frontier

Mark Alan Elliott
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Borderland: Love and severance on the new frontier

In 2036 a new nation is born: Borderland. It’s a wild and dangerous new frontier where what’s mine is yours, if you can take it. These songs and stories chronicle three generations of its inhabitants struggling to love and live in a land designed to divide. Written, performed and produced by Mark Alan Elliott For more: mark-elliott.net/borderland

Episodes

  1. 1. King Of The Dogs (Remastered)

    14 OCT

    1. King Of The Dogs (Remastered)

    Young Nero flees his home town after his family is murdered by a rival family. Traveling the open road, he is haunted by the ghost of his mother and the guilt of her death. Finally settling in Wounded Tree, he discovers his calling as the outlaw extraordinaire, King Of The Dogs.

    8 min
  2. 2. Wounded Tree

    22 OCT

    2. Wounded Tree

    Nero’s new home, Wounded Tree, has become the defacto capital and beating heart of Borderland. It’s a safe haven for gangsters, outlaws and corrupt politicians, while also attracting all types of thrill seekers to it’s wild west inspired anything-goes culture. But even before Borderland’s establishment, the town had an ancient reputation for trapping visitors in a web of indulgence, vice and debt. Visitors beware.

    7 min
  3. 3. Kemina's Demise

    29 OCT

    3. Kemina's Demise

    At the peak of Nero’s outlaw fame, he meets the beautiful and uninhibited Kemina. They fall in love in front of the world on Wounded Tree’s immersive, pay-per-act, live streaming stage. But their impassioned, high thrills romance is cut short by Nero’s soul-destroying error at the Governor’s ball.

    6 min
  4. 4. Jaguar Moon

    6 NOV

    4. Jaguar Moon

    Jax, an orphaned child of Wounded Tree enters the story. Escaping an abusive orphanage at a very young age, Jax lives as a thief on the streets. He finds shelter in caves on the edge of town and lives a solitary nocturnal life, withdrawing into his lucid dreams. But when his gang is absorbed by a cartel he is forced to change professions from theft to murder.

    10 min
  5. 5. Twenty One Years

    13 NOV

    5. Twenty One Years

    Kemina's death and the Governor's resulting punishments have reduced Nero to a bitter and broken old man. Luna, his daughter, only three years old when her mother Kemina was killed, grows up alone under Nero's oppression and cruelty. Luna bides her time, retreating into stories of her own making while longing for love and freedom.

    9 min
  6. 6. Across The Border

    19 NOV

    6. Across The Border

    Through a chance encounter, Luna and Jax meet and begin a secret affair. They fall in love and make a plan to escape Papi and the cartel by crossing the border with the help of a coyote. But crossing proves difficult when they are attacked by the Federales.

    12 min
  • 6 Episodes

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In 2036 a new nation is born: Borderland. It’s a wild and dangerous new frontier where what’s mine is yours, if you can take it. These songs and stories chronicle three generations of its inhabitants struggling to love and live in a land designed to divide. Written, performed and produced by Mark Alan Elliott For more: mark-elliott.net/borderland

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