Lasarus Ratuere

In early-colonial Australia, a timber feller, kept awake by his infant child’s cries of hunger, encounters something perturbing in the woods.

Inspired by true events, the story begins with Japanese rugby officials dwelling on a humiliating anniversary, a 145-17 defeat by the New Zealand All Blacks in the 1995 World Cup. Officials question their decision to appoint Eddie Jones, to coach their national team for the 2015 World Cup. Jones plans to defy convention in order to put a stop to Japan being the laughing stock of world rugby.

Vietnam War, 1966. Australia and New Zealand send troops to support the United States and South Vietnamese in their fight against the communist North. Soldiers are very young men, recruits and volunteers who have never been involved in a combat. On August 18th, members of Delta Company will face the true horror of a ruthless battle among the trees of a rubber plantation called Long Tân. They are barely a hundred. The enemy is a human wave ready to destroy them.

ネットに直接アクセスする電脳技術が発達し、身体の一部または全てを義体化（サイボーグ化）することが出来るようになった近未来。ミラ・キリアン少佐率いる警察エリート組織「公安９課」は、日々サイバー犯罪やテロ行為を取り締まる任務を遂行している。少佐はテロ組織がハンカ・ロボティックス社のサイバー技術の破壊をもくろんだ事件をバトーらと共に捜査するうちに自分の記憶が何者かによって操作されていたことに気付く。

In 1983, a naive man is detained by Australian Federal Police with lethal narcotics hidden in his stomach. After being apprehended, ‘The Mule’ makes a desperate choice... to defy his bodily functions and withhold the evidence – literally.