"There are times when it is necessary to abandon our humanity, to save humanity."- War for the Planet of the Apes (2017 film trailer)
The year is 2301. Governments have been disbanded. Towns have been evacuated and abandoned overrun by the living dead as a result of science gone awry. Survivors must do what must be done to live. Some sacrifice for their families, while others turn on their fellow man. Food is scarce. Days are hot. Nights are cold. Routine is all that gets people by through the day. But then one day that all changes.
Eve, is a bitter orphan traveler with a distinct disdain for her own humanity.
On the anniversary of her mother's self-inflicted death, a bright blinding light and searing heat passes through the earth. The sun's rays have penetrated the earth's surface is slowly laying waste to the earth's sole protective barrier.
Eve, now blinded in one eye, and her companions--a rag-tag group composed of helplessly hopeful older folk born before the world erupted into chaos--and one lone child, Adam, whom Eve resents for his innocence, recover slowly from the event and discover that their water supply has completely evaporated.
They set out from their temporary camp to find a way to replenish their water while Eve hides her handicap.
Whilst bitter over her blind eye, Eve fails in her job as scout. Although she finds water, her inability to see properly leads the group into a horde of the undead. In their attempts to fight off the horde, their numbers dwindle and faced with certain death, an unlikely savior, Ronin, comes to their aid.
They are transported to an abandoned zoo, Ronin's home and a makeshift sanctuary.
Upon their arrival, they meet other groups of people saved by Ronin. Here, Eve, presented with a less bleak future begins to question her beliefs and under Ronin's influence begins to restore her faith in humanity.
However, Eve soon discovers that Ronin's aid comes at a price and his version of salvation is a cruel oasis in the vacuum of earth's disappearing space.
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