The world's youngest citizen has just died at 18, and humankind is facing
the likelihood of its own extinction. Set in and around a dystopian London
fractious with violence and warring nationalistic sects, Children of Men
follows the unexpected discovery of a lone pregnant woman and the desperate
journey to deliver her to safety and restore faith for a future beyond
those presently on Earth.
Set in 2027, when no child has been born for 18 years and science is at
loss to explain the reason, African and East European societies collapse
and their dwindling populations migrate to England and other wealthy
nations. In a climate of nationalistic violence, a London peace activist
turned bureaucrat Theo Faron, joins forces with his revolutionary ex-wife
Julian in order to save mankind by protecting a woman who has mysteriously
became pregnant.
"Children of Men" envisages a world one generation from now that has fallen
into chaos on the heels of an infertility defect in the population. The
world's youngest citizen has just died at 18, and humankind is facing the
likelihood of its own extinction. Set against a backdrop of London torn
apart by violence and warring nationalistic sects, "Children of Men"
follows an unlikely champion of Earth's survival: Theo, a disillusioned
ex-activist turned bureaucrat, who is forced to face his own demons and
protect the planet's last remaining hope.
World divisions, chaos and anarchy, these are the ways the world and the
last remaining inhabitants are checking out. No child has been born for
eighteen years. Human life and its moral self is eroding into extinction.
Set in Britain in the year 2027, this is Theodore Faron finding his ghosts
coming back to haunt his fruitless life, in the form of an underground band
of rebels The Fishes. Unwittingly drawn into their plight, learning who can
be trusted, who can be dependable, and how he must hold the most precious
secret the Human race has been so longing to hear, the miracle that can
change the course of Humanity; the first pregnant woman in eighteen years.
On the run, he, Kee and Miriam must travel cross-country, on the run,
terrified and helpless to the safe haven of the Human Project. With the
help of aging hippie Jasper Palmer this horrific, dark, unconventional and
uncompromising road movie is all that is left between the demise of the
Human race and the birth of a new drawn.
With this dystopian world ravished by war, paranoia and the frustrations of
Man the Orwellian vision of Nineteen Eighty-Four, the totalitarian future
is now complete and amongst us. With female fertility becoming obsolete,
Man cannot reproduce, and no child has been born on the face of the planet
for eighteen years. Man, and his future, is dying. Soon he shall be
extinct. Theo, the beaten, downtrodden and middle-aged ex-political
activist will, unwittingly, become involved in a war of an underground
revolt. Here he is active once more, in the perilous journey across
England's Home Counties, with a young girl, Kee, who, to Theo's
bewilderment is pregnant. The first pregnant woman for more than eighteen
years. This secret must be protected, at all cost, and mother and child
must flee to the mysterious and enigmatic Human Project, across the seas.
Their flight is a constant fight for survival. Who can be trusted? Who can
keep a secret?