"The Deprived" Plot Synopsis

"The Deprived" – Movie Plot

 

The setting is a post-apocalyptic world where all known common law and political systems have fallen into disarray. Riots formed in the cities, food became scarce, and soon it became kill or be killed. We begin the story following a young boy called Adam, at only 17 he has been traveling the wastes alone, heading south as the days grow colder and darker. After searching a farmhouse for supplies he is taken by surprise by a local gang who knock him out, place a sack over his head, and drag him away. He begins to regain consciousness outside what appears to him as an old industrial complex. All he sees is the sky above him through the gaps in the stitching and the muffling of voices around him. Eventually a voice cracks from the side to line them all up. This is where the story begins.

After a few second Adam hears footsteps in front of him that stop abruptly. Again after a long pause he is blinded by a sudden flash of light as the sack is pulled of his head and a tall silhouette stands before him. He leans in close looking into Adams eyes. He orders his men to throw him in with the others, and he is taken into the rusted maze of steel and iron. He is dragged into a dark, cold room where he is strapped to a pipe by his hands. Looking around him his eyes begin to adjust to the light and he sees the others, all like him tied up against the walls. Blood running from their heads, all a variety of ages, but all male. One by one they are dragged from the room by their hair kicking and screaming. The screams, one by one soon abruptly stopped. And again the same dark figure would enter the room picking his next victim, with more and more blood covering his dark skin and rusted machete each time. Until but Adam and another young boy remained. As the door again screeched open, the figure approached Adam, cutting his binds and grabbing his hair… before he could drag him clear the wall Adam is released and he hears shouting and scuffled movement of feet behind him. He turns to see the young boy, binds around the figures neck strangling him, until his body lies motionless on the damp ground.

The two decide to stick together and sneak out of the site, avoiding guards and taking what supplies they could find of their own. They come across a map with a combat knife dug through it on a table. As Adam runs out the door jack quickly grabs it and follows. They run into the nearby woods where they are safer, they wander through the woods till they find a small derelict cottage on the side of a mountain where they decide to make camp as the light begins to fade. Setting down their rucksacks and making a small fire, the both sit back against the stone walls of the crumbling house in silence, staring into the fire. The older boy introduces himself to Adam, “I’m Jack by the way” and Adam does the same. After a silence Jack askes where Adam is heading and the pair begin to talk of their journeys, Adam more open than Jack, who keeps most of his history to himself. To which Adam respects, people have no good history after the blackout, everyone just went insane, and those who didn’t either ended up dead in the street, or wandering the wastes for, well, anything.
Jack pulls out the dirty map from his pocket showing Adam, the map is covered in scribbles and markings. The two decide they would stick together until they find enough supplies to be on their way alone once more, “Strength in numbers” jack mumbles. The next morning the two set of together. Thinking maybe one of these markings on the map indicated a gang supply dump or something that would help their situation.

They travel the overgrown landscape together, scavenging abandoned houses for food and shelter. They come across Items and places that remind them of what life was like before, and how simple it was. Many of the houses and buildings they search, they find people dead, that have opted out, either shooting themselves or hanging them and their families. One house in particular they enter is still inhabited, and a middle aged man takes Adam at knife point, obviously terrified the man eventually releases Adam, to which jack responds by brutally stabbing the man in the chest. Arguments break out between the pair on their differing views and morals in situations, and tensions begin to build. Eventually we learn that Jack had a younger brother called Michael, who was around Adams age. One night, as Jack and Michael lived alone, Jack was out scavenging. Only to come back to his secluded farmhouse to find his little brother is missing and a trail of blood leading into the woods. Ever since Jack had promised himself he would find his brother no matter what, and convinced himself that he was still alive. He also shares that his parents Hung themselves from the tree outside his window only a few weeks after the blackout, leaving him and Michael alone to fend for themselves.

Eventually the two find one of the markings on the map, Jack runs in, with excitement for what he may find. Adam enters more cautiously and is hit by a smell that cuts through him. He finds jack stood in the centre of the room, empty, apart from a floor submerged in pile upon pile of torn and ragged clothes and dried blood. Jack becomes angry and begins kicking and throwing his fists at the lack of supplies. But he suddenly stops. Crouching down facing away from Adam he picks up a child’s watch from the ground, it was his brothers. He never took it of ever since he had it for Christmas when he was eight years old. Jacks eyes well up and he stands shouting for his brother. “Michael!! MICHAEL!” Adam tries to calm Jack down but is hit with Jacks anger and frustration as jack tells him to leave him alone. The gang perusing them hears the shouting and goes to investigate. Adam spots a trail of blood leading under and old bookcase, he follows it, pushing it out the way to reveal a door way. Leading into a basement. Where he finds a room with a large metal door at the far end, with a “caution, Extreme temperatures, Freezer” on the door, the ground around it covered in pieces of flesh and fresh blood. And old wooden table sits to the centre with an assault rifle and ammo surrounding it, inspecting the rifle he finds a note on the floor, it reads.

“Right we are running low on ammo, so use whatever else you can find to kill ‘em, we can’t spare any more. Me and the boys never did like eating around the shrapnel anyway” …”Cannibals”. Adam murmurs to himself, shocked and disgustedat what he had just read… “We need to leave now” Jack enters the room, with desperation still in his eyes. “What is it… what does it say!?” Adam is reluctant to give him the note but jack snatches it from his hands. Reading it carefully. As he reads the anger and frustration builds in his eyes, tears begin to stream down his emotionless face. And he drops the note.” Jack please, wait” Jack pushes past Adam throwing him aside. Hearing the rabble of the gang outside, he picks up the assault rifle and cocks it. Adam tries to grab it of him but Jack hits him over the head with the butt of the gun, and Adam lays motionless on the floor. Blind fury fills his eyes and he walks with gun in hand up the stairs and out the front door, where he is greeted by a line of red eyed twitching men, all with blunt weapons and machetes in hand. They snort and snarl at the sight of the boy, and with the order of their ranking member “Get him!” they charge at Jack. With no hesitation, and a dead, motionless expression, he lifts his automatic and unloads the whole magazine into the 11 men, and the air is filled with a mist of pink blood, as the body’s hit the concrete, and the echo of gunfire shuttles through the valley. And everything turns silent.

Adam regains consciousness, the ground around him is damp, and he realises he is in the centre of a field with his hands binded behind his back. And he feels the cold steel of the gun barrel slowly rest against his forehead. “Jack?” “Jack listen to me please… Everything is going to be okay we can still find him” again he repeats, slower and more calm “Everything is going to be okay” There is a long held pause and the sound of wind in the trees and the grass swaying fills the air. Jack, in a quiet, almost whisper of a voice murmurs. “Nothing is ever going to be okay.” He lifts his rifle into his own mouth, pausing for a second, and fires, and his lifeless corpse hits the soft grass, as birds flee and flutter around the field. And once more the sound of wind fills the air, silence.

Fin.