Set on Earth in the closing decade of the 21st century, the human race has developed a drug that allows women to reproduce children without the need for male sperm. At the same time that this ground breaking scientific advancement is made, the world is experiencing great social upheaval. Through the century the influence of the female race has grown significantly as more and more woman are elected to the highest positions of power. More than half of the world's leaders are now women, including the president of the United States and now world power, China. In the Middle East, women do not yet hold the same control as those in the Western world, though they too have been steadily climbing out from under the oppressive shadow of the male race, which has dominated them for centuries.
As this political power shift has built, so to has opportunity for women around the world in the work force and society. Women now earn more money on average then men and statistics show that increasingly women are becoming the predominant providers for their families while men have less and less say in the world's most important decisions and their status as the dominant sex has rapidly decreased. This reversal of control between the sexes has greatly improved world living standards, reducing world poverty and unemployment to near zero, righting the world economy after it endured the worst crash in history early in the century and financially backing education over military advancement.
However, despite this positivity, the female race's rise to power is met with anger and frustration by the male race as all around the world men contend with a growing sense of worthlessness, losing the opportunity and freedom that they have always taken for granted. Eventually males worldwide decide that they will not sit back and wait to be rendered completely useless to the world they feel they created and now that they are not needed for reproduction it is only a matter of time.
A global revolution launches, males of all races and religions band together hoping to rise up and destroy the new fertility drug, take back their place as the alpha sex and casting women back to their roles of the past. Women recognize this threat and they to come together to defend themselves and their newfound power. The sexes soon divide completely, tearing apart every family, as even those who do not wish to fight and try to remain with their partners are forcibly enlisted by their sides. This leaves the world’s progress in stalemate as men and women mobilize against each other in preparation for the ultimate battle for control.
The main characters are male Dominic Valentine and female Cassandra Rose who had only recently become engaged before the looming war tore their relationship apart and they separated to join their respective sides in the battle. Both characters are influential leaders in the war, which soon ensues across the planet, casting what was a slowly recovering world, in to chaos. The battle is of unimaginably epic proportions, fought in every city in the world, the advanced weaponry quickly reducing the Earth to ruins. Both sides are merciless in the struggle obliterating each other as the men strive to recover and destroy the fertility drug and the women fight to defend it. The war lasts approximately a year and results in the destruction of 90% of the world’s population. The drug is finally destroyed by the male race and the war ends with both sides surrendering to each other as they realize with so few people left, continuing would mean the complete extinction of the human race.
The film concludes with Valentine and Rose being reunited with each other in the aftermath of the stalemates declaration. The two happen upon each other among the ruins of a once beautiful city when Cassandra places her gun to the back of the Dominic’s head demanding he drop his weapon they suddenly recognize each other. Cassandra keeps her gun firmly pointed at her ex fiancée’s head for a tense moment before pulling him in for a deep kiss, tears rolling down their faces. The film ends with the assumption that the rebuilding and repopulating process will now begin.
Callum MacPherson
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