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The Girl from Monday is a film made in 2005. The film deals with the consequences of business monopolization and globalization. Filmed entirely in Jersey City and New York City, the film was first shown at the Sundance Film Festival. After a limited run in New York, it was shown at various festivals in America and Europe.
Plot summary
A being from another planet (Abracos) arrives on Earth and takes human form.
In voiceover, Jack Bell (Bill Sage) explains how his ideas came to bring the "triple M" into power and reduce human beings to mere consumers, pawns of the corporation.
Jack tries to hook up with Cecile (Sabrina Lloyd) but fails, leading the insurance company to investigate why this happened. The insurance agent decides it's not Cecile's fault and her premium remains the same, while Jack's is raised.
By chance Cecile meets up with a teenager in the counter-revolution, who takes her to a place where people have sex because it feels good. Cecile is arrested and sentenced to "two years hard labor... teaching high school."
At the high school, Cecile reads Thoreau's book Walden and is inspired to join the counter-revolution.
Meanwhile, Jack finds the girl from the planet Monday (named after its discoverer, Vincent Monday, explains Jack in voice-over) and teaches her how to fit in in human society. But the girl, who refers to herself as 'nobody', just wants to go home. Jack, it turns out, is also from that planet, and has tried and failed to go home. They go to the ocean, where the girl walks into the ocean. Jack says he doesn't know if she made it or not.
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