(DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING)
(DRAMATIC MUSIC RISES)
(IN NATIVE LANGUAGE) Ave.
Tell me a story.
Not now, Heron.
Please.
I'm not your mother.
Tell my son a story.
I can tell you
about where we're going?
Your father's going to find us
food and shelter.
There will be herds of animals
to hunt,
warm caves to live in.
ODAL: Heron's a boy.
He needs to hear
about conflict. Struggle.
What do you know
about struggle?
ODAL: Heron
would you like
to hear my story?
It begins with a people
that moved with the seasons.
In summer they arrived
at their hunting grounds
but the herds did not.
Facing starvation,
they decided to return south
but a headstrong young man
had other ideas.
He wanted to head west
to a land
of his childhood stories.
There would be a test
to reach this land.
A journey across a great sea.
But the reward
would be bounty unknown.
A place teeming
with animals to hunt.
With fertile valleys
and immense mountains
filled with warm caves.
(SOFT MUSIC PLAYING)
The elders laughed
at the idea.
So our hero
his heir
his mate
-(BLOWS AIR)
-his younger brother
a brave advisor
and a stray
took to the sea.
They battled waves
as high as mountains.
The storm
stole their provisions.
But just as all hope was gone
the sea calmed
and the promised land
appeared.
(SOFT MUSIC CONTINUES)
(YELLS)
ODAL: Our hero
had delivered their salvation.
A place where their children
would flourish
(BREATHING HEAVILY)
and the elders
could find peace.
Their own paradise.
GEIRR: Beyah!
-(BEYAH EXCLAIMING HAPPILY)
-We made it!
(ALL LAUGHING)
HERON: You're squashing me!
(LAUGHING ECHOES)
But it was cursed.
The earth was barren.
(WIND HOWLING)
Exposed
to incessant wind...
Careful, Odal.
ODAL: You haven't found us
food or shelter, Adem.
And you don't know
what's out there.
Whatever's out there,
I can handle it.
HERON: What is
out there, Odal?
Cold.
Starvation.
Demons more powerful
than your father.
Evil, bloodthirsty things.
This isn't the happy place
of his childhood stories.
This land is old
and dark.
Then I am the light.
(ODAL CHUCKLES)
The danger in bringing light
to a dark place
is that you might find out
what lives in the darkness.
(LEAVES RUSTLING)
(SCREAMS)
(LAUGHING)
ADEM: Enough!
There are no demons.
If we'd stayed where we were
you'd all be dead.
But here, you have a chance.
Because of me.
(RUSTLING)
(OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING)
GEIRR: Don't eat that.
BEYAH: I'm so hungry.
I know.
Maybe we'll have to eat Odal.
(BOTH LAUGHING)
HERON: k*ll it! k*ll it!
k*ll it!
k*ll it!
GEIRR: Don't worry about him.
BEYAH: I'm not.
He'll eat first.
Strays eat last.
You're not a stray anymore.
You're with us
and I'll look after you.
(HERON GRUNTING)
Heron!
We're setting out.
You'll see.
(DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING)
Is that where we're going?
GEIRR: Yes, Heron.
The foothills
will be full of caves.
ADEM: In three days
we'll be safe and warm
in a new home
and all of this
will belong to us.
I promise you.
Let's go.
(OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING)
(WHISTLES)
(SNIFFS)
(WATER TRICKLING)
(SLOW SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC
PLAYING)
(DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING)
GEIRR: Did it fall
over the edge?
ADEM: It was forced.
There's nothing left of it.
Don't tell the others.
Why?
It means there's prey.
Because I don't know
what did this.
(OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING)
We need to get back to them.
(STONES CLACKING)
We're too exposed.
Adem, we're too exposed.
-It's a good vantage point.
-(ODAL SCOFFS)
For what?
There's f*ck all here.
This is why the elders
wouldn't take you south.
I took pity on you.
You need me.
Do I?
Ave is as good at foraging
as you.
And if Ave dies?
That's why I'm here, isn't it?
You don't do anything
out of pity.
This is a good thing for you.
(BREATHING HEAVILY)
If my baby is a boy,
I won't worry.
But if it's a girl
she'll have to earn her place.
(CONTINUES BREATHING HEAVILY)
You're important to him now.
I'm just trying
to let you know
you have a purpose now.
Purpose?
It's a good thing.
It's a good thing.
(SOFT DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS)
(TWIG SNAPS)
(OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING)
(LAUGHING)
(WIND HOWLING)
(BREATHING HEAVILY)
HERON: Dad!
ADEM: Heron!
Heron!
-(TWIG SNAPS)
-(BREATHING HEAVILY)
(WIND HOWLING)
(DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING)
(TWIGS SNAPPING)
HERON: Got you!
Are you stupid?
Don't wander off!
Do you understand?
Do you understand?
(OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING)
(BREATHING HEAVILY)
GEIRR: Ave.
Geirr.
They can rest, we hunt.
(OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING)
ADEM: We'll go around.
Are you sure?
I'm not taking them
through a forest.
We stay in the open.
But that will add days.
We'll go around.
Won't it be too hard
for the others?
They'll be fine
once they've eaten. Come on.
-(BIRDS CHIRPING)
-(LEAVES RUSTLING)
(AVE CRYING)
(OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING)
(AVE CONTINUES CRYING)
ODAL: She must eat, Adem.
(ODAL PRAYING)
k*ll it! k*ll it!
(SOBBING)
HERON: k*ll it! k*ll it!
Stop!
ADEM: Keep watch.
(RUSTLING)
-(DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS)
-(BEYAH GASPS)
My girl
don't stray too far
from the fire.
(FIRE CRACKLING)
It's getting cold.
We've got no food.
ADEM: Ave is so tired.
My baby may not survive
this journey.
I can accept that
because I have Heron.
And you.
(BEYAH WHIMPERS)
You're for whatever I need.
(LEAVES CRUNCHING)
(CREATURE SCREECHING)
GEIRR: What was that?
What was that?
AVE: Adem, what was...
ADEM: Shut up!
(SCREECHING CONTINUES)
(LEAVES RUSTLING)
(FOOTSTEPS RUNNING)
(LEAVES RUSTLING)
(OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING)
(TWIG SNAPPING)
(HERON GRUNTS)
Heron?
(OMINOUS MUSIC RISES)
Heron!
-Heron!
-GEIRR: Heron!
AVE: Heron!
-What took him?
-GEIRR: Come back!
AVE: Can you hear me?
What did you see?
(AVE SHOUTS
IN NATIVE LANGUAGE)
You can't track him now!
Wait until light.
He's my son.
AVE: No!
GEIRR: Adem, stop!
You watch them.
GEIRR: We can't split up!
(AVE CONTINUES SHOUTING)
I can't do this on my own!
(BOTH GRUNTING)
If something happens to you!
Think about Ave!
(ADEM YELLING)
Your baby will die!
(SCREAMS)
We'll all die.
(ADEM SCREAMS)
It's time.
Beyah.
I'm not going with him.
We have no choice.
(OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING)
(PANTING)
(SNIFFS)
What is it?
I don't know.
But it's not blood.
Heron's alive.
(OMINOUS MUSIC CONTINUES)
Heron!
Heron!
Adem
we can't.
ADEM: He's in there.
(DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING)
GEIRR: Adem!
Think!
Adem!
Adem!
It's getting dark.
What if he's already dead?
Then it's your fault!
I told you to keep watch.
Keep moving.
I need rest.
Stay with her.
No! She's on heat.
That's what brought it to us.
Then keep up.
He's going
to get us all k*lled.
I'm sorry.
(LEAVES RUSTLING)
(DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING)
GEIRR: Adem!
Adem!
(YELPS)
(BREATHING HEAVILY)
(FLIES BUZZING)
(CREATURE ROARING)
AVE: Adem.
ODAL: Adem, your son is dead.
(LEAVES CRUNCHING)
(SCREECHING)
(HIGH-PITCHED SHRIEKING)
(OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING)
Run.
(TENSE MUSIC PLAYING)
Come on!
(SCREAMING CONTINUES)
(HIGH-PITCHED SHRIEKING)
Why have you stopped?
Light a fire.
Are you mad?
We light a fire
or we die in the dark.
(STONES CLACKING)
You've k*lled us.
You've k*lled us!
(STONES CONTINUE CLACKING)
(BREATHING HEAVILY)
(SCREECHING)
GEIRR: Hurry, Beyah!
(STONES CONTINUE CLACKING)
(HEAVY BREATHING)
(FIRE CRACKLING)
(ROARING IN DISTANCE)
(RUSTLING)
(TWIG SNAPPING, RUSTLING)
-We've been trapped.
-(SLAPS)
Adem! (WHIMPERS)
(TWIG SNAPS)
(RUSTLING)
(TWIGS SNAPPING)
-(SCREECHING)
-(SPEAR CLATTERS)
-(FOOTSTEPS RUNNING)
-(SCREECHING)
(DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING)
(TWIG SNAPS)
(LEAVES RUSTLING)
(LEAVES RUSTLING)
(FOOTSTEPS RUNNING)
(TWIG SNAPS)
(FOOTSTEPS RUNNING)
(ADEM BREATHING HEAVILY)
(LEAVES CRUNCHING)
(GROWLING)
(ADEM SCREAMS)
(OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING)
(ADEM SCREAMS)
ADEM: Geirr!
(ADEM SCREAMING)
ADEM: Geirr!
(ADEM CONTINUES SCREAMING)
(WHIMPERS)
We're all going to die!
(SHUDDERING)
(OMINOUS MUSIC CONTINUES)
GEIRR: Adem!
(TWIG SNAPS)
(FOOTSTEPS)
(RUSTLING)
(OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING)
(ADEM GASPING SOFTLY)
(WHEEZING)
Do something.
We can't save him.
Do something.
You have to do it.
I can't.
(OMINOUS MUSIC RISES)
(FLESH SQUELCHING)
(ADEM EXHALES SLOWLY)
We should never
have come here.
We need to hide.
We can't hide.
It will find us.
We have to stay awake
and...
And?
Fight?
Like your brother?
We have to do something!
What's wrong?
What's wrong?
Ave!
Help her!
If she doesn't eat
she'll die.
We've got something
to eat now.
No.
It's what he'd want.
It's for his child.
We don't eat our own.
We're not monsters.
Do you want to survive?
(GEIRR SIGHS)
BEYAH: Take it.
Then look away.
(FLESH TEARING)
(RETCHING)
(BLADE SLICING)
(COUGHS)
(SOFT DESPONDENMUSIC PLAYING)
(LOUD CHEWING)
Why doesn't it just k*ll us?
ODAL: We trespassed.
It's punishing us.
It's going to eat us.
It didn't eat Adem.
No.
You did.
ODAL: We have to appease it.
You can't appease an animal.
It's a demon!
Are you insane?
He's right.
It's a monster.
So we have
to offer it something.
GEIRR: No.
We have to hunt it down.
BEYAH: Geirr,
you can't hunt this thing.
Adem tried
and now he's gone.
We need shelter.
(FLIES BUZZING)
ODAL: Move.
To die somewhere else?
You can't escape a demon.
I want to leave.
I'll lead us to the mountains
and we'll find a home.
No one's going
to follow you, boy.
What are you looking
at her for?
Get us out of here.
Move.
(SLOW DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING)
(AVE BREATHING HEAVILY)
(FLIES BUZZING)
GEIRR: I can get us
out of here.
No you can't.
ODAL: Enough of this!
You've had your chance.
Now we do it my way.
I am wisdom.
Ave carries life.
Geirr is our spear.
But a stray?
You're for whatever we need.
When did it first appear?
When you started to bleed.
It can smell you.
I can smell you.
(DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS)
BEYAH: Get off me!
(SCREAMS)
GEIRR: Don't!
Geirr!
(BEYAH CONTINUES SCREAMING)
Get off me!
ODAL: Demon!
AVE: Grab her!
(BEYAH CONTINUES SCREAMING)
ODAL: Demon!
BEYAH: Get off me!
Please!
ODAL: Demon!
(BEYAH CONTINUES SCREAMING
IN THE DISTANCE)
Why are you helping him?
Because he's right.
He's crazy!
I won't lose another baby.
(SCREAMS)
(CREATURE SCREECHES)
(OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING)
-(ODAL GRUNTS)
-(YELPS)
(HIGH-PITCHED SHRIEKING)
(FOOTSTEPS RUNNING)
(HIGH-PITCHED SHRIEKING)
(TWIG SNAPS)
(TWIGS SNAPPING)
-(STABS)
-(AVE GRUNTS)
Take her.
Take her!
Take her.
-(BONE SNAPS)
-(ODAL GROANS)
(SCREAMS IN PAIN)
(WIND BLOWING)
(ODAL CONTINUES SCREAMING
IN DISTANCE)
(OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING)
(ODAL CONTINUES SCREAMING
IN DISTANCE)
(STRAINED BREATHING)
(DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING)
(HIGH-PITCHED SHRIEKING)
(RUSTLING, LEAVES CRUNCHING)
(FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING)
(RUSTLING)
(TENSE MUSIC PLAYING)
(SHUDDERING)
(FLIES BUZZING)
(GRUNTS)
(ODAL GROANING)
(DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS)
-(TWIGS SNAPPING)
-(ODAL WHIMPERS)
(SOFT GROWLING)
(OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING)
(GASPS)
(ODAL SHUDDERING)
(EXHALES SLOWLY)
-(WHISTLING)
-(ROARING)
(FOOTSTEPS RECEDING)
(OMINOUS MUSIC CONTINUES)
-(RUSTLING)
-(SOFT GROWLING)
(BEYAH SCREAMS)
(CRACKING)
-(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING)
-(SHUDDERS)
(SCREAMS)
Come on!
GEIRR: Beyah, stop!
BEYAH: It will lead us out!
(DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING)
(BEYAH SHOUTS
IN NATIVE LANGUAGE)
(THUNDER RUMBLING)
Geirr!
Come on!
Stop it!
It's over!
I've got the trail.
It's like us.
No.
It's not.
I saw it take Ave's body.
Why?
Because it's a monster.
I want to go back.
There's nowhere to go back to.
Geirr.
We won't survive out here.
If that thing has shelter
we need to take it.
What if there are more?
Then they'd have k*lled us
already.
It's been trying
to scare us away.
Beyah.
Why aren't you scared?
I am scared.
(SOFT MUSIC PLAYING)
But I want to live.
(THUNDER RUMBLING)
(SLOW SUSPENSEFUL
MUSIC PLAYING)
It's a trap.
We have no choice.
(THUNDER RUMBLING)
(MUSIC INTENSIFIES)
(WATER DRIPPING)
(SOFT OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING)
(STONES CLATTERING)
(BEYAH BREATHING HEAVILY)
(THUNDER RUMBLING)
(LIGHTNING CRASHING)
(THUNDER RUMBLING)
(LIGHTNING CRASHING)
(FOOTSTEPS)
(INHALES NERVOUSLY)
(STONES CLATTERING)
(SHUDDERING)
(RUSTLING)
(GROWLING)
(DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING)
(BOTH GRUNTING)
-(BONES SNAPPING)
-(BEYAH SCREAMS)
Geirr!
(GROWLING)
(BEYAH GRUNTS)
(BOTH COUGHING)
(MAN CHOKING)
(MAN GRUNTS)
(FLESH TEARING)
(COUGHS)
(THUNDER RUMBLING FAINTLY)
(MAN GROANING)
(RUSTLING)
(MAN GROANING)
(DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING)
(MAN GROANS)
-(FLESH SQUELCHES)
-(MAN GROANS)
Where's my Dad?
Beyah, stop!
(SCREAMS)
(SCREAMING ECHOES)
BEYAH: Geirr!
BEYAH: Come on!
Heron!
(COUGHING)
Faster Heron!
(GRUNTING)
Come on!
(BOTH COUGHING)
(SPEAKING IN NATIVE LANGUAGE)
Heron!
Heron!
Help, Beyah!
Help!
(WOMAN CONTINUES SPEAKING)
(WOMAN GROANS)
-(SCREAMS)
-(STONE THUDS)
(SNIFFLES)
What have you done?
It was them or us.
Monster! Monster!
Stop, Heron!
HERON: We were starving.
They fed me!
They wanted to save me!
Monster!
Enough!
Dad!
Dad!
He's dead!
They're all dead!
(HERON CRYING)
Those things k*lled them.
They weren't things
they were like us.
(SOFT DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING)
HERON: Beyah, tell me a story.
It began with a stray
looking for a home.
She journeyed
into a land of monsters.
Corrupted by fear and rage...
she k*lled the monsters
and took their cave.
Only then did she see
how they had lived.
BEYAH: Ave?
HERON: They brought her here
to honour her
and her baby.
How they had stolen a boy
because they wanted
to save him.
How they had cared for others.
She saw how they had been
threatened and afraid.
She saw they were people
just like her.
The stray realised
she had found a home
and she had destroyed it.
(SOFT DRAMATIC MUSIC
CONTINUES)
(HERON CRYING)
In time the stray and the boy
learned to survive.
The first of a new people.
HERON: What do we do now?
We try again.
(OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING)