Jake Paltrow writes and directs this sci-fi action feature starring Michael Shannon and Nicholas Hoult. Set in a futuristic, drought-ridden America, Ernest Holm (Shannon) survives in the deserted wasteland whilst maintaining a farm and trying to rediscover a sustainable water supply. Following the hospitalisation of his wife Katherine (Aimee Mullins), Ernest lives with his two children Mary (Elle Fanning) and Jerome (Kodi Smit-McPhee) as they try to get enough money together to enable their mother to return home. But their lives are tragically disturbed by the ruthless intervention of Mary's boyfriend Flem (Hoult) who wants sole possession of the family land.