Freedom!
Adventure/ Drama
Feature Film

In a future Dark Age a tribe of men called the Margai ("Mah-guy") have established villages inhabited by young people of all ages. When they are old enough to breed, the children are paired off and mated. Then, once the new generation has been born, the young parents are herded off to the mountains and uncertain fate.

In one village a youth called ROWAN has grown sick of his own passivity, and is troubled by his inability to make life better, especially for RADA, the girl he loves. He shares his frustration with his friend EWAN, a profound thinker who asks the same questions: Isn't there more to life than simply staying alive?

Rowan explores the forbidden, barren zones beyond the village. During one such foray he glimpses a grown-up man, and sets out to find him. Climbing the Big Stones, Rowan falls and is knocked unconscious. He awakens in the care of the old man, CASPER , the last of a forgotten band of freedom fighters. Wise, humorous Casper regales him with tales of the old days, when men were free to choose their own destinies. Rowan decides that it is better to fight for freedom and die than to live as a slave.

Meanwhile, in the village, the new Margai Chief, SCAR - clearly more intelligent than his predecessor - has decreed the Breeding Time. In Rowan's absence Rada is forced to mate with LON, a cocky bully who threatens to tell the Margai about Rowan and Casper unless Rada submits to him.

With the help of AGATHA, a brave, nurturing adult woman, whose task it is to look after the smallest children, Kiri, Rada and the other girls deliver healthy babies.

Rowan is captured and returned to the village and thrown into the refuse pit to rot. Scar announces it is time for the eldest children to go to the "rich country" in the mountains where they will be reunited with their parents. In truth the parents are long dead, and only forced-labour camps await the young people. Preparations are interrupted by the arrival of the Margai Chief of Chiefs, who has hunted Scar down. In a fierce battle the better-prepared Scar defeats his old master, and decrees himself Chief of Chiefs. Ewan searches the refuse pit for Rowan, but finds him gone. A dreadful fire erupts and, in a heart-wrenching moment, Kiri perishes.

Some Margai guards march the young people into the mountains, but are ambushed by Casper and Rowan, and Rowan leads his liberated friends back to the village to free the others.

As the others flee the village, Rowan stays behind to meet the returning Margai army. Lon,repenting his selfishness, joins Rowan, and the two young men fight bravely before they fall, but they gain the time needed for the others to escape. The new tribe of free young people heads into a new age of freedom, with the visionary Ewan as their leader.

Co-Production with Guinness Entertainment