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When a rising Hollywood starlet becomes ill with a strange sickness, she's forced to confront her tortuous life of fame. Actress Isabella Haynes knows how to perform -- and she's damn good at it, too. With her boyfriend and director, Daniel T. Lightbourne, the two are primed for Hollywood royalty. But cracks inevitably emerge in this facade, and Isabella must confront her status as a public figure. What starts as a series of strange hallucinations quickly turns into something much darker -- a threat to everything she knows and loves. As Isabella is lured by masochistic visions, she undergoes an unnatural physical transformation -- forcing her to flee from the spotlight to rediscover her true identity before it's too late. Ultimately, PAX AMERICANA is a story about performance and the ways our lives are built on spectacle. Where does the line blur between fiction and reality? How do we uncover our true selves within the parts we play? It's an examination of humanity within the digital age, and the intoxicating lure of a media frenzy. PAX AMERICANA is a grotesque, darkly-seductive look at life under the spotlight -- and to what ends we'll go to keep basking in its glow.

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