The independent sci-fi romance film “WITHOUT WARD” is set in a future dominated by a global regime known as Contractualism. In this world, Ward, a distinguished inventor played by Martin Landau, develops a drug that enables individuals to experience their most vivid dreams as reality. Over two decades, half of the global population becomes reliant on this drug. Meanwhile, the Union of United Esquires, a group of armed lawyers who serve as the world’s enforcers by upholding and executing contracts, oversees the drug users.