J U M E L L E S
J U M E L L E S
Feature Screenplay
Sci-Fi, Drama
Posted by Minh Koby Nguyen
Written by Minh Koby
Drug/Alcohol AbuseFamilyFuturisticHigh ConceptHigh TechLove StoryMedicalPsychologicalRevengeRuralTragedyUrbanViolenceTime Period: Distant FutureStory Location: Asia | Other ContinentTarget Audience: Young Adult
Active ✔ PDFIn a near-future where memories can be implanted, the consciousness of a stillborn twin is secretly transferred into her sister’s mind. Raised as a failed experiment, the girl grows up haunted by a second soul, silent, tender, resisting. Between poverty, abandonment, and science’s exploitation, emerges a ghostly love: the impossible bond of two sisters sharing one body.
In a cybernetic yet emotionally sterile future, a mother, trapped in poverty and violence, sells her newborn twin daughters to Memory Ink, a corporation that implants and archives human memories. One twin dies at birth. The other survives, unknowingly carrying the consciousness of her sister. Considered a failed test, her file is discarded. But as she grows, the second presence inside her awakens, silent, haunting, tender. Every gesture becomes doubled: an invisible hand brushing her hair, a voice resisting within her silence. The sisters live one inside the other, bound by an unspeakable intimacy that blurs life and death. Their search for the absent mother ends with a final digital message: a projection where the mother, consumed by guilt, finally names the lost child — Tarah. JUMELLES is a poetic and psychologically intense film about identity, grief, poverty, and invisible love. A story where silence resists language, where memory and shadow compose the soul.
