Episode 1
44min -
The world as we know it no longer exists. A virus has ravaged the planet, wiping out the adults. The children, who are immune until puberty, live in savage packs, fighting over the few edible scraps which the grown-ups left them. In Sicily, nature is taking back what was once hers, smothering the towns with her greenery, choking the hulks of old vehicles with ivy. There is no electricity or running water. Hidden away in a family farmhouse in the woods are the Salemi siblings. Anna is fourteen, Astor is eight. The skeleton of their mother still lies in the double bed. Each day the young girl heads out in search of food, going as far as Palermo. One day she stumbles across a gang of children smeared in blue paint in a ruined building. They are the followers of the evil Angelica. Legend has it she keeps an adult whose kiss can save you from the virus locked up somewhere. Anna runs away with Pietro, a boy she instinctively trusts. He takes her for her first ride on a moped. When she gets home, Astor is there waiting for her. The boy is convinced there are giant birds that poison the air outside the forest, and that only her sister knows how to take them on. It’s what Anna has told him, to protect him from the dangers out there.
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