Children of Men 🎥 2006 Movie Info

Plot Summary

otal human infertility has led to wars and global depression, pushing civilization to the brink of collapse as humanity faces extinction. The United Kingdom has transformed into a totalitarian police state in which refugees are arrested and either imprisoned, deported, or executed in concentration camps. Theo Faron, a former activist turned cynical bureaucrat, is kidnapped by the Fishes, a militant refugee-rights group led by Theo’s estranged wife, Julian Taylor; the pair separated after their son’s death during a 2008 flu pandemic. Julian offers Theo money to acquire transit papers for a young refugee woman named Kee.

Theo only obtains joint transit papers from his cousin, a government minister, and requests to escort Kee in exchange for a larger sum of money, to which Julian agrees. Luke, a Fishes member, drives Theo, Kee, Julian, and former midwife Miriam towards Canterbury, but an armed gang ambushes them and kills Julian. The group escapes from the gang and the police before hiding Julian’s body. At a safe house, Kee reveals to Theo that she is pregnant, making her the only known pregnant woman in the world. Julian intended to take her to the Human Project, a secret scientific research group in the Azores dedicated to curing humanity’s infertility. Luke becomes the new leader of the Fishes.

That night, Theo eavesdrops and learns that Luke orchestrated Julian’s death, while also intending to kill Theo and use Kee’s baby as a political tool. Theo, Kee, and Miriam escape to the secluded hideaway of Jasper Palmer, Theo’s friend and a former political cartoonist. Jasper lives with his catatonic wife Janice, a former journalist tortured by the government. The group plans to reach the Human Project ship, the Tomorrow, scheduled to arrive offshore at Bexhill, a notorious refugee detention centre. Jasper arranges for Syd, an immigration officer to whom Jasper sells cannabis, to smuggle them into Bexhill as refugees.

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