The Lost Future

Plot

In a post-apocalyptic world, a group of survivors are organised as a tribe, a primitive society without technology. They live in a small village in the former Grey Rock National Park where they hunt various animals, and try to avoid the "beasts", bestial, aggressive human mutants who transmit a disease that transforms the victims into mutants. The tribal leader is Uri, whose son Savan is the best hunter of the tribe and his father's successor. Kaleb is the best tracker, and an under-appreciated hunter. Kaleb and his sister Miru are the only literate survivors in the tribe, taught by their father Jaret before he went missing. Jaret believed other survivors might exist outside the park and went searching for them. Kaleb, a dreamer, is secretly in love with Savan's woman, Dorel. When the mutants attack, the surviving members of the tribe, including Miru, run to a cave and block the entrance with heavy logs. Some of the young hunters say they should fight the mutants, but the tribal elder says they should pray, and if they die or are turned into a mutant then it is God's will. Trapped outside, Kaleb saves Dorel from a mutant, and they and Savan leave to find help to save the rest of their tribe.

A stranger, Amal, approaches the trio and invites them to his home, where he lives with his wife Neenah and their son Persk, across a river. Amal tells them that the mutants are afraid of water, which is why he and his family live on the other side of the river and are safe from the mutants in the area. He also tells them that the disease is airborne and since they have been exposed they will all turn into mutants. He reveals that he knew Jaret, and that he had discovered a yellow powder formula that cures people infected by the mutant virus as long as they have not completed the transformation and also makes them immune from the disease. Amal, Jaret and others formed a brotherhood to make the powder and distribute it to other tribes. However, Gagen, one of the brotherhood's members, killed Jaret and stole the remaining yellow powder, setting up his base in a ruined city where he doles out the remaining supply of yellow powder only to those who serve him. Amal, Savan, Kaleb and Dorel travel together downriver on Amal's boat towards Gagen's city to find the yellow powder in order to save themselves and their tribe. Amal lights a signal fire atop an old monolith to summon the other members of the brotherhood. Mutants attack the group and Amal is injured and trapped in a crevasse; the other three, believing him to be dead, continue the journey without him. However, all three are now showing signs of infection.