Song of Sunset Episode 1: The Living Room is a recovered historical record from the Earth Year 2025, when small stages still existed, and strangers could become a community in the time between day and night. In the year 2175, an archivist at the Living Archive unveils a breakthrough: raw, unencrypted “seeds” kept offline before everything was encrypted under Narrative Containment Ordinance NCO 47.11.

What was meant to be erased survives in the noise; open mics, dive bars, patio stages, and the brave act of stepping to the mic with nothing but a story.

Set in Bend, Oregon, The Living Room follows the people who built and protected these spaces; venue operators, musicians, and local catalysts, revealing how live performance carried resilience through the 2020 shutdown, and why vulnerability became dangerous to systems built on control.