Sunset valet is staged in future times, in a moated sanctuary city of an eerily obedient citizenry, named the Pixies. Silence and stigma remain attached to all things mental health. The government has reached an impasse in distributing sustainability funds without going to war. Jobs and resources are already shared past city walls and back roads: city Pixies, back road Pixies - both still work hard on dreaming - the blue-collar apprentice dream to make it big one day. With a steadfast drive, Pixies deliver elite precision work in saving lives. They help out people on their worst days ever. 

Shop steward Pixies incessantly engage in multi-pronged battles against a few, yet really flaky algorithms, relentless application trials of virtual fixes to beat physical addictions on the brain: beat bondage with under- and/or overstimulation, beat loneliness with constructive boundary abstractions, beat intrusive intimacy frames with sour allies’ rejection games, and so on... Meanwhile, the hiring pace for essential worker Pixies is curtailed: just a handful of decoy Pixies, avatars, gladiators...keep holding down the fort. Peon pixies are considered easy marks to push and shame for the never satisfied toil demand. Pixies are weakened and exhausted by an endless swindle of half-hearted procedures kept not for their benefit, but for a firm rein on emotions and salaries before the time of academic revelation starts. Some work assignments are so stressful that restraints are set on sleep, on taking meals, on holding conversations... 

Mental health support for PTSD is as inadequate as it can be. Far from endorsing personal safety plans, a good number of devoted boss Pixies are strangely infatuated by a dog clinician pack - guilelessly named Pixel Dust, because these dogs are fast. The workforce is run by and mostly trusts in canine confidentiality. The ratio of calls for help to available specialists is top-heavy, high. Almost daily, clinician Pixies thank peer Pixies for their consultant work in local communities. Still, the continuation of local identities from lives setting personal roots to accomplishing and using professional academic degrees remains faint within Pixie communities. Just so, most Pixies rather do second jobs than study- to afford a fancy split into their private lives sometimes. 

A wealth of social work data got skewed before the old mayor could disappear. A Potter-esque you-know-who steers agencies into disbanding outreach capacities pioneered by Pixies over the years. Community challenges raised were thus erased STOP evidence-based treatments cancelled STOP listening STOP giving time to keep up dignity STOP All in favor of a bipartisan laissez-faire? All in favor of labyrinths of rules? Puttin’ on a stay on political will atrophy and status quo adherence...?