Bryn Bayliss

In 1825, Clare, a 21-year-old Irish convict, chases a British soldier through the rugged Tasmanian wilderness, bent on revenge for a terrible act of violence he committed against her family. She enlists the services of an Aboriginal tracker who is also marked by trauma from his own violence-filled past.

Drifting aimlessly through life, Kaisi has racked up debts of several million having borrowed money from his friends. Lured with the promise of writing it all off, Kaisi leaves his ailing mother and childhood sweetheart Qing to board the ship Destiny and attend a gambling party controlled by the mysterious Anderson. All players join the game with stars. For each game they lose, their opponent captures a star. Everyone is holding daggers behind their backs plotting dirty means by which to overcome their opponents. The game quickly deteriorates into a slaughter and Kaisi must battle save his own skin.

カリスマ的な統率力を誇る猿のシーザーが、仲間を率いて人類への反乱を起こしてから10年後。遺伝子の進化、知能と言語の獲得により猿たちはさらに進化を遂げ、独自の文明を形成、森の奥に平和なコミュニティを築いていた。一方、10年前に自らが生み出したウイルスにより人類は90％が死に追いやられ、僅かな生存者グループは、荒廃した都市部の一角に身を潜め、希望なき日々を過ごしている。そんなある日、人間たちが資源を求めて森に足を踏み入れたことから、猿たちとの間に危うい緊張が走る。