Weepies

The near future, an unnamed city:  A recently debuted narcotic pollutes bodies in numbers this world has never seen. In its short lifetime, the drug is responsible for more deaths than heroin, cocaine, and methamphetamine combined. Those acquainted with the substance call it weepies, a depressant in the form of eye drops that induce such extreme sadness its after-effects (actually the normal human state) feel like pure, unfiltered euphoria. Unfortunately, a large percentage of the poor bastards are so overwhelmed with sorrow that they take their own lives during the initial effects stage.

Caught in the middle of this drug epidemic is Zelda, a recovering weepies addict searching for answers after her husband's suicide. One day, a letter appears on her desk, penned in her husband's handwriting. It leads her to a seemingly abandoned warehouse in the epicenter of her decaying city. Inside, she discovers a weepies production line and what appears to be a research center. A shadowy figure appears as if out of nowhere and everything goes black.

Zelda awakes on her apartment floor in a daze. There is a masked man on her couch, a brilliant neurologist who goes by Lethe. Lethe informs Zelda that weepies are the centerpiece of a government scheme concocted to eliminate the overpopulated world of undesirables, namely junkies, and that the two of them must stop the citywide epidemic before it goes global.

The police won't listen, the factory is suddenly heavily guarded, and weepies are more widespread than ever. Can Zelda and Lethe reform the weepies addicts and turn them against their crooked government? Or will they have to take direct action against the factory and shut down all production? Can Zelda avoid the fate of most addicts as she grieves her husband? 

An incendiary conclusion will leave someone in tears.