
Synopsis/Details
Dan is the last man on earth, traveling aimlessly through the world in a huge flying vessel, the Atlas, a remnant of a world before everything ended. Dan is trying to end himself, unable to overcome the pain of the loss of his family.
During one of his attempts to reunite with his loved ones, he stumbles upon a signal the first time he awoke from cryostasis. It leads him to a facility built into a mountain. He finds many cryostasis pods full of sleeping people!
Three of these pods activate by accident, much to Dan’s dismay. Now he has the company of three more people. One of them is Hope, a member of a political entity that wants to rule the world with happiness.
However, Dan has no intention of awakening everyone just to have another dictatorship rule the world and is supported by one of the awakened, Henk. The third, Jorah, does not get involved in these heated debates and remains mysteriously silent most of the time.
Hope overthrows Dan and flies the Atlas back to the cryo-facility. She wants to free the leader of her Leage of Peace. But when she finds him, he has been turned into some kind of mindless puppet that attacks her.
Dan and the others are able to save her and flee the scene, only to receive a signal from Dan’s old location: a remote cabin in the mountains where he used to live with his family.
When he arrives, Dan finds his daughter, who he thought was lost as a child. She is now a young woman who has joined a religious cult. The members around their leader Noah are awake long before Dan and now try to capture him, unsuccessfully.
Dan hides the glider and leaves the others to find the cult members and free his daughter from them. But Noah captures him and wants the key to Command Central.
It is a large cryo-facility where nearly a million people are sleeping. Once there, he wants to wake up only the members of his cult and use them to create an extremist religious society.
Dan knows nothing about a key and manages to kidnap his daughter from Noah. He brings her back to Atlas, only to see Noah get there before him.
Henk betrayed him in exchange for free passage. The entire company now heads to Command Central and retrieves the key from Dan that was hidden in his head.
Jorah reveals that he was supposed to be the one to wake up before everyone else with the key in his head. He is a member of a group of scientists called the Technocrats.
They invented the entire cryostasis plan and tried to design society according to strict logical principles. When they arrive at the Command Center, Noah reveals that one of these members turned to the religious group when he fell away from his faith and turned to God. This led to Dan being exchanged for Jorah while asleep in cryostasis, causing Dan to wake up alone in the first place.
Now Noah sets out to mutilate every sleeping person who is not a member of his cult before awakening them all to form a new humanity with himself as its ultimate leader.
Dan, who just wanted to get away from all the trouble, now has a heart. He stops Noah and his group. In the end, he wakes everyone up to let each individual decide for themselves what to do with their lives, even if it means that humanity would end again. He understands that it is not for him to decide their fate.
Story & Logistics
Story Conclusion:
Bitter-sweet
Linear Structure:
Linear
Cast Size:
Few
Locations:
Several
Special Effects:
Significant cgi
Characters
Lead Role Ages:
Male Adult
Advanced
Time Period:
Distant future