Off the Grid

When a mental health audit reveals that Vertex Solutions’ IT department has the worst burnout metrics in company history, there’s only one solution: mandatory wellness.
Priya Sharma hasn’t slept more than four hours in six years. Her eye twitches when she goes five minutes without checking email. She measures her self-worth in cleared notifications and considers ＂inbox zero＂ a spiritual achievement.
Then HR sends her entire team to a digital detox retreat in the Montana wilderness.
No phones. No laptops. No Wi-Fi. No way out for five days.
What follows is a hilarious, heartfelt story of four tech workers forced to confront the lives they’ve been too busy to live. There’s Priya, the workaholic who forgot what her husband’s smile looks like. Chad, the security specialist who can’t sleep without checking threat alerts. Yolanda, the database manager who’s been hiding behind headphones for thirty years. And Benji, the youngest, who’s never existed without a smartphone in his hand and isn’t sure he can survive analog reality.
Guided by Francesca, a former tech executive who had a breakdown and never looked back, and Hector, a mountain guide with infinite patience and quiet wisdom, they learn to start fires, read maps, and have conversations that aren’t interrupted by notifications.
But the real challenge isn’t the wilderness-it’s the return. Can they carry what they learned back to a world that’s designed to steal their attention?
*Off the Grid* is a comedy about the machines we’ve become dependent on and the humans we forgot we were. It’s about what happens when the notifications stop and the silence finally has room to speak.