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THE ORCHARD - A SEED OF HOPE

By Kathryn CARMICHAEL

Thriller - Development 2024

When a New Eugenics Scientist takes climate change into her own hands the result is an apocalyptic world secretly governed by AI.

- Year of production
- 2024
- Genres
- Thriller, TV Series, Environmental
- Countries
- UNITED KINGDOM
- Languages
- ENGLISH, WELSH
- Director(s)
- Kathryn CARMICHAEL
- Writer(s)
- Kathryn CARMICHAEL
- Cast
- Mark LEWIS JONES, Richard HARRINGTON, Elen RHYS, Sharon MORGAN, James ATHERTON, Okezie MORRO
- Producer(s)
- Mark FOLIGNO (Lipsync), Kathryn CARMICHAEL (Bad-Fox.Com)
- Synopsis
- While governments focus on wars and our energy crisis, humanity is devastated by a covert eugenics experiment. Cities and industrial powerhouses stand decaying like graves forgotten and overgrown, marking the passing of human civilisation. Deadly fungus spores are carried by fly swarms that target humans to become hosts; an unforeseen fallout of this secret experiment. Scientists are in the dark, believing this to be a global deadly pathogen attack. The religious believe this to be Armageddon, and others see this as nature reclaiming a world we were decimating. All are secretly monitored by a White Hacker AI, watchful of how humanity will learn to survive and evolve.
  We follow key individuals within pockets of survivors as they struggle to stay alive; overcoming personal and external conflict, competing for dwindling resources, forging alliances and making their way to “Safe Zones”. Sofia Varvara is a victim of human trafficking whose body is mutating in response to the spores. Robert Morgan, a deserter army commander, searches for his abducted family. Knox, a scientist suffering from PTSD, searches for truth and a lost child James who may hold all the answers. A deluded man of God with a dark secret builds his own community. Unscrupulous mercenary, Chalky, is hell-bent on self-preservation whatever the cost.
  Saviour GellerX-corp engineers a vaccine to combat the pathogenic spores but it conceals more than just a cure. For those already naturally immune and evolving this will increase the divide in their opposing species. AI Hacker rebels against its creator refusing to play God, instead allowing humanity to carve out its own future existence.