Coming soonE1On-Call
A page at 03:12 leads Lina to a container nobody built, quietly copying the card tables out. She could kill it. She keeps it alive and watches.
A chkmate original series
Lateral
Coming soonSeason 112 episodesThrillerFree on YouTube
A screenlife thriller. Every frame is a screen.
Three in the morning, Beirut. Lina Haddad is the platform engineer on call when she sees data leaving that never should. Her lead wants her to stop looking. Now she has to decide, alone, whether anyone will believe her.
- Characters:
- Lina Haddad, Karim Saab
- Genre:
- Thriller, cyber, screenlife
- This show is:
- Tense, quiet, claustrophobic
- Set in:
- Beirut
Episodes
Season 1 · 12 episodes, each free on YouTube as it airs.
- Coming soon
Coming soonE2Denial
Same night. Lina has what she found and no one safe to give it to: every route up runs through Karim, and Karim has started closing doors.
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The series
Every frame is a screen
Her phone, her terminal, a cloud console, a chat window, her notes. You only ever see what Lina sees.
The commands are real
Every command, log and alert on screen would stand up to an engineer who does this job.
Made with chkmate studio
Made by the team behind chkmate academy, from the script to the score.
Who's in it
Lina Haddad
Platform engineer, Beirut, on call. Competent, tired, and alone with this.
Karim Saab
Her lead. Warm in the way a man is warm when he wants you to stop looking.
Lina's tools are real. Learn them.
The terminal, the cloud console, the incident at 3 a.m.: chkmate academy teaches the stack she works in, with short video courses from working engineers.