Thursday, 22 October 2015

Film Synopsis+Background Lore

Synopsis:


The story takes place in what used to be northern Scotland, but is now a wasteland, returned to a twisted, mutated nature, generations after a nuclear apocalypse. A young woman who was born into this nightmare is struggling to survive. She was taken in at a young age by a group of scavengers, who consisted of two small families, molded together for protection. When one of the families accidentally conceived another child they outcast her, because they could no longer survive in a group of that size.

 When searching for a place to shelter during the winter she stumbles upon a bunker, left behind by people of the old civilisation. Here she meets a very old man, created to outlive most humans, designed to lead an isolated civilisation, set up before the apocalypse to preserve the human race. He teaches her of the old world and begins to question her purpose in life, yearning for a better existence.

The time has come for the man to leave his bunker, and lead the new civilisation to a brighter future. Wishing for a a meaningful life,the girl offers to guide him on his journey. On the way she learns more and more of the world beyond the wasteland she was born into, driving her to deliver this prophet to his destination. Along the way they face the perils of the forest, including bandits and mutant animals, all driven insane by the world around them.

The girl, having learnt the ways of the old civilisation, asks the man to name her. He chooses Neith after the Godess of War and the Hunt. The Prophet had been educated in the history of human kind, and recognised the girls strength and knowledge of hunting and and killing.

Just as their goal seems in sight, they’re separated, as the girl is taken by psychopath bandits that have learned to live in harmony with the twisted landscape. The prophet knows he must continue his quest alone, but has come to care for the young girl. In grief he attempts to continue on, but can’t bring himself to leave the girl, turning back in an attempt to save her. He fails and is captured, but the girl escapes, freeing him, but is mortally wounded in the process. He believes that if he can get her to the new civilisation, they will have the technology to save her. They make it to the new civilisation in time, and she is saved by their technology.

Lore:


In 2054, China declared war on America, instantly throwing the World into a nuclear war. Inevitably, almost all life was wiped out, leaving the Earth a desolate wasteland, mutated by the radiation.

Anyone who wasn’t killed by the nuclear explosions was killed by the resulting famine, and fallout. The world slowly, but surely descended into madness. The few humans that were left turned to a primal violence, fighting for what little resources were left behind. Nothing is left of civilisation; very few people even have names, or understand a language.

As nature began to reclaim the world, it was distorted, and twisted by the radiation; most parts of the world are far from what the old civilisation had created. Mutated animals rule the food chain, while carnivorous, or poisonous plants prey on those brave enough to attempt change.

In the build up to the war America and other UN countries created a contingency plan. Expecting almost everyone to be wiped out, they saw it as an opportunity to create a “perfect” future, one that they would engineer as they saw fit. They chose a small group of women, chosen for their genes, and stored them in cryogenic stasis in an underground bunker on an isolated Scottish isle for 200 years. They also froze the means to create new life through these women, training them for the world they would wake up in, and informing them of the duty they had. They also created a genetically modified human male, designed to outlive any human, as a prophet for the civilisation.

Little did the American’s know, that the whole reason for the Chinese’ declaration of war, was for the exact same reason. The war was a suicide mission, to ultimately create a brighter tomorrow. They too had made a similar contingency plan, following their ideals, their idea of “perfection”. This of course, would inevitably lead to similar conflict in the future, when the two civilisations met.

The Prophet:


The male was created by the science of the old world to be a perfect human being, able to face the potential dangers of the world. He was left in a bunker in northern Scotland as an embryo. The bunker contained the means to develop said embryo into a human, raising it into the perfectly molded human being to lead the civilisation. This included information about the old world that he would discover at a certain age. The entire bunker was engineered to create what the American’s saw as a perfect leader. The prophet has only known what was fed to him by the bunker, which would lead to a “perfect” civilisation.
The contingency plan also includes multiple other males, identical to this one, but raised in a slightly different ways, in the event that one way, or another failed. They too were placed in other parts of Scotland, and Wales, if one failed, another bunker would open, instructing the male to find the original isolated civilisation. Of course, if one succeeded, the others would be left to rot. This particular prophet was the third in a line of others that had failed to reach the civilisation before him. The journey to the civilisation was meant as a final test for the prophet, teaching him of the potential dangers of the world, which were unknown to the people who made him. This, to his creators, would be the final piece in the puzzle that was his education, allowing him to lead the civilisation to a perfect future, one better than the old world.

The Girl:


The Girl was never named by her adopted family. They took her as a child when they separated from a bandit clan that had resorted to slavery in order to survive. Jeopardising their children’s safety in an environment they did not control. The clan was left without the man power to contain the few slaves they had captured. The slaves escaped, murdering most of the clan, bar its leader, and two followers.  The group that took the girl in consisted of two couples, one with two young children, the other with one, all a similar age as the Girl. The group lived a nomadic lifestyle, scavenging the landscape for survival. And the girl grew up with four parents, learning how to survive, how to kill. As the Girl was approaching her 16th summer (or what summer had become) the second couple conceived another child. Knowing that the group would not survive in these numbers, they outcast the Girl, leaving her to her own devices. Although sad, realising that she had never truly been accepted as their child, she did not protest. By this time she knew only too well, how to survive, and understood their decision, knowing that she had a better chance of survival on her own. As her first winter alone approaches, the viewer finds the Girl searching for shelter.

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