The
world has been devastated by a virus that has decimated the adult population
leaving small children and teenagers to roam the scarred landscape
attempting to form some kind of society with dramatic and violent results.
Sisters Evie (Catherine Wrigglesworth) and Fran (Emily Forster) have been
travelling from town to town, gathering food and finding accommodation as they
move from place to place. They keep to themselves; Evie reading chapters from
E. Nesbit’s classic children's story
‘The Railway Children' to her little sister in an attempt to
bring a sense of normality to their bleak existence - the novel was a favourite
bedtime read as both girls were growing up; their mother (Jennifer Graham)
their favourite reader. Finding overnight shelter in a derelict building, the
sisters soon settle down only to be awoken by shouts from another room.
Investigating, Evie witnesses the beating of a girl. She watches in horror
until the mob leaves the building and the girl behind. Tentatively going to her
aid, the girl whom Evie discovers is called Alice (Justine Rodgers) leads them
to a large building at the edge of the city from where they hear singing coming
from a basement window. They investigate . . .
. . .so begins a battle of wills between newcomers and those holding tenuous threads of a commune civilisation together; add to this further invidious threats from two of the girls’ darker pasts and an already tense atmosphere is soon to explode into violence.
. . .so begins a battle of wills between newcomers and those holding tenuous threads of a commune civilisation together; add to this further invidious threats from two of the girls’ darker pasts and an already tense atmosphere is soon to explode into violence.
Written/Directed
by: Jason Figgis
October
Eleven Pictures Ltd
Be on the look out for this film, as it makes its way to film
festivals!
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