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After the apocalypse, a group of people take shelter in an old building and are attacked by mutant rats.
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"In the Christian Year, 2015, the insensitivity of man finally triumphs and hundreds of atomic bombs devastate all five continents. Terrified by the slaughter and destruction, the few survivors of the disaster seek refuge underground…From that moment begins the era that will come to be called “After the Bomb”, the period of the second human race…A century later several men, dissatisfied with the system imposed on them by the new humanity, choose to revolt and return to live on the surface of the Earth as their ancestors did…So yet another race begins, that of the new primitives…The two communities have no contact for a long period. The people still below ground are sophisticated and despise the primitives, regarding them as savages…This story begins on the surface of the Earth in the Year 225 A.B. (After the Bomb)"
A group of people riding motorcycles or driving trucks through a barren wasteland like area, which is populated by a few iguanas and skeletons lying in cars. The group of men and women gather together in a circular pattern, this is a group of New Primitives lead by Kurt. The group then drives into the ruins of a city, until they are halted by Kurt who decides they can stop for the night. Kurt walks up to the door of a large building complex and kicks it open. The group enters the building, which includes a large bar, and begins to search it. Kurt tells Video to scout one side of the bar and Video spots a rat, which he tries but fails to catch. Video shows Kurt the freezer where the rat came from, and then relates his mom’s recipes for cooking rat after he suggests to Kurt they eat they rats. The group continues to search the building, and they enter a room with large green boxes in the center and some beds against the wall. Noah uses a crow bar to pry open the boxes and finds it filled with packaged food and cans. The rest of the group begins to excitedly open up the rest of the boxes, stopping to eat some of the food when they come across it. Kurt pours flour on Chocolate’s head, to which she exclaims she is now as white as the rest of the group and she starts to dance around. Myrna, the excitable member of the group, pulls back the sheet on one of the beds in the room and screams as she discovers underneath the sheet is a body being eaten by rats. The women in the group scream and Kurt tells everyone to be quiet, as they have seen dead bodies before, and to search the rest of the building. Taurus and Video search the bar area and Video throws a bottle at a rat when Taurus tells Video the rat wants a drink. Kurt opens the freezer the rats were first found in and finds the freezer now empty. Taurus says the building is full of rats. While searching the building, Taurus corners a rat with a broom inside a group of fallen chairs, but when Duke sticks his hand in the chairs and tries to kill the rat, it jumps at him and bites him before is able to kill it by throwing it and shooting it with his shotgun. Kurt, Diana, Lucifer and Deus discover a body sitting in a chair in one of the rooms that is in the same condition as the one found in the bed, bloody and covered in rats. Video scares Myrna and Chocolate by sneaking up behind them with a sheet over his head and yelling, “Boo!” to which Chocolate threatens to blow his brains out if he ever does that again. Diana is standing next to a closet showing Kurt a hat she found, when a bloody body falls out of the closet and lands on her. Noah and Lilith are off searching by themselves when Noah’s flashlight stops working. Lilith says it is just her luck and she should have stayed with Lucifer, as Noah always “fucks things up”, and Noah tells her it can happen to anyone. Video, Deus, Diana and Lucifer walk into a control room filled with computers and Deus starts to fiddle with a control panel. Kurt asks Deus what the control panel may be, and Deus walks in the room and tells Kurt the machine is a video game. The group eggs Video on, and by random button pushing, Video is able to turn on the lights in the building. The light reveals a greenery and water purifier to Noah and Lilith who happen to be walking in the room at the time. Lilith asks why the plants don’t grow outside, and Noah tells her it would take too long to explain. Deus correctly infers the machine is a computer and not a video game. Video kicks the machine while yelling that it needs a kick in the balls. The machine turns on and the words “Total elimination group” appears onscreen. Kurt asks what turned the machine on and Deus suggests Video caused a short circuit by kicking it, or involuntarily asked it a question. Kurt wonders what total elimination of the group means and Deus believes it means the bodies are the group being discussed. Noah and Lilith join the group and Lilith tells them of what she and Noah found. The entire group goes to the greenery and Noah explains to Kurt about the greenery. Noah believes the group of people they found dead had discovered an artificial way to produce what used to be grown in the outside and he explains how the purifier purifies rain water. Diana drinks some of the purified water and exclaims that it tastes great. Kurt thinks what the dead group did was amazing but also brings up that they died quite easily. The dead bodies are gathered from around the building, piled up outside and burned. Deus says a prayer for the dead, and the group returns to the building. In the room with all of the beds, Video tries to get sex from Chocolate for him being able to start the computer. Chocolate tells him no, but gives him a kiss as a down payment. Slowly, outside and inside, the rats start to gather. The group starts to sleep, however Taurus is having a hard time falling asleep due to Lilith and Lucifer having sex next to him in their sleeping bag. Taurus tells Lucifer, “C’mon stop that, having to listen to you two humping is pretty nasty!” Taurus then tells Lucifer at the count of three he is going to drag Lucifer and Lilith apart if they don’t stop having sex or move elsewhere, and Kurt orders Lucifer outside of the room. When Lucifer tries to unzip the sleeping bag, Lucifer finds the zipper to be stuck. Duke asks Lucifer if he got his key jammed in the lock, and Chocolate tells Lilith and Lucifer they are condemned to die fucking. Taurus unzips the sleeping bag for them and Lucifer and Lilith leave to have sex in another room. Lucifer is angry at the group for making them leave and Lilith kisses him to get him aroused again. Noah is still in the greenery and is eating some fruit when he hears a noise. Lilith and Lucifer are lying in the sleeping bag, when Lucifer wants more sex. Lilith tells him she is too tired and Lucifer angrily storms off after calling Lilith a stupid bitch. Lucifer goes to the bar, and finds a bottle that still has alcohol in it and begins to drink from it. Noah sees rats crawling into the water purification tank and when he tries to grab one of them, he is attacked by a group of rats. Lucifer, who is obviously drunk at this point, walks over to a phone and has a fake conversation with someone through the phone. As Lucifer spots a group of rats, he moves outside and starts to yell at the rats asking if he can join “the party”. A rat enters the room where Lilith is sleeping, but she doesn’t see it. Outside Lucifer is drunk wandering around when he drops his bottle of liquor into a hole and when he goes to retrieve it, he is eventually attacked by rats. The rat in the room with Lilith manages to gnaw its way inside of her sleeping bag. Lilith wakes up to the rat gnawing on her, but she can’t unzip the sleeping bag and screams. The group that was sleeping run towards Lilith’s screams and find her dead in the sleeping bag, but with no apparent wounds. The group immediately blames Lucifer for murdering Lilith by strangling her, until a rat climbs its way out of Lilith’s mouth. Myrna starts to scream that the rats will kill and eat them all, and then Noah runs into the room covered in rats. Kurt, who is holding a flame thrower, sets Noah on fire and Noah runs outside before collapsing on the ground. Duke puts Noah out of his misery and shoots him with a shotgun blast, and then starts shooting randomly into the darkness while yelling at the rats to come out into the open. Video wonders aloud what has happened to Lucifer. Taurus and Chocolate follow Kurt to the greenery area, and once they open the door, they find it full of rats. Myrna continues to break down further and further mentally. Deus runs up to Kurt and tells him that he found Lucifer but he is dead. The group goes to Lucifer’s body and Kurt incinerates it. Taurus tells the group they are stuck because the rats chewed through the vehicle tires. Kurt angrily punches Taurus and blames him for not guarding the vehicles. Video tells Duke not to turn on each other, and Kurt apologizes to Taurus. Duke blames Kurt for their problems and accuses him of blaming others and not himself. Kurt then blames Lucifer and Lilith’s deaths on them having left alone. Duke tries to usurp power from Kurt saying that he can lead better than Kurt, but Chocolate implores them to stick together. Kurt challenges Duke to a duel, but Duke backs down. Kurt orders everyone to find items to barricade the room with the beds inside. Myrna continues to break down mentally, and is almost constantly screaming. The group barricades the rooms with the beds inside and Myrna asks what the rats have against them. Deus thinks perhaps the rat’s instinct to kill has been awakened. Taurus tells a story of a time when rats attacked the cave he and his family were living in, but only stole and ate the food. Deus starts to talk about how humans feel they are superior, and how rats used to live in the underground areas and they could tell the difference between a rat from their pack and an intruder by the scent of their urine. Deus then says the rats would kill all strange rats. Duke laughs at Deus and the idea rats can tell the difference between each other by their pee smell. Diana is standing next to an un-barricaded area, when she is attacked by rats. Diana survives the attack, but Chocolate tells Taurus she needs purified water or her wounds will get infected. Taurus tells Chocolate that he didn’t bring any water. Kurt, Taurus, Deus and Video go to the greenery, while Chocolate, Duke (who continues to blame Kurt for their predicament), and Myrna stay behind with Diana. Duke barricades the last remaining area and tells Myrna to come talk to him. Duke tells Myrna being afraid is not good for her and convinces Myrna to trust him after he tells her that he can protect her. Kurt, Taurus, Video and Deus go to the water purifier but find it to be full of rats. The group retreats to the stairs, but Kurt’s flame thrower goes out. Kurt asks for Taurus’ pole weapon, covers it in a rag, douses it with fuel and lights it on fire. Kurt orders Taurus, Video, and Deus to follow him up the stairs in single file line. As he is walking up the stairs, Taurus is attacked by a rat, falls down the stairs into the greenery and is swarmed by rats. Kurt tries to go back for Taurus, but Video drags him away as they are attacked by more rats. Kurt, Video and Deus run from the rats and return to the room with the beds, only to find it locked. Chocolate tells Duke to let them in, but Duke ignores her. Duke asks through the door if Kurt’s mission for the water was worth it and if they returned with any water. Kurt replies they didn’t get any water and they were attacked by rats. Chocolate points her weapon at and threatens Duke, but he points his shotgun at her and tells her that he is her new leader whether she likes it or not. Chocolate lies and tells Myrna there is a rat near her, scaring Myrna, who bumps into Duke, knocking him over. Chocolate takes Duke’s shotgun and forces him to open the door for Kurt’s group. Kurt enters the room and is planning on killing Duke, but Myrna begs him not to and tells Kurt that Duke was just trying to protect her. Kurt kicks Duke in the balls and then tells him he won’t be so lenient next time. Video wants to go back and see if they can help Taurus, while Diana’s fever continues to get worse. Kurt wants to stay until the dawn before they try and make an escape, while Duke thinks they should try an escape now. The group hears a scream outside the room which they think belongs to Taurus and decide to go save him. Duke tells everyone Kurt wants to use them as bait, and Kurt threatens to kill him if he continues to talk. Kurt, Video and Deus open the door, but see the area filled with rats. Video is the first to try and make his way through the rats, and when he succeeds without the rats attacking him, he celebrates that the war is over. Next to go is Deus, then Chocolate, Myrna and finally Duke. When Kurt closes the door, the rats become agitated which scares the group and they flee towards the entrance to the building. Duke grabs Myrna and tells her the time has come for them to leave. Kurt, Chocolate, Deus and Video find Taurus’ body, but it is covered in rats both outside and inside, and rats explode like a geyser from Taurus’ back. Diana, who had been left behind, joins the group, and they hear the sound of a vehicle. Duke is in the armored vehicle and starts firing the turret rifle at Kurt’s group, but eventually his weapon jams. Kurt orders Duke to come back, and Duke threatens to kill himself and Myrna with a grenade. Kurt throws a grenade at a group of rats in the vehicle, which, due to its proximity, kills both himself and Myrna. Diana slowly walks away from the rest of the group. Kurt notices Diana is missing, and orders the remaining members of the group to go and search for Diana. Diana yells at the rats to come out and then slits her wrists with a piece of glass. Kurt finds Diana’s body being eaten by rats and starts shooting at the rats. Chocolate and Video find Kurt crying at the body of Diana, and Deus joins the three of them. Deus points out that Diana slashed her wrists, and he asks Kurt why he was shooting at her, to which Kurt responds he was shooting at the rats. Kurt yells that the rats are stronger than they are, and that there are only four members of their group remaining. The group runs away from a large horde of rats and return to the computer room, where they find Lilith’s body. Kurt and Deus drag Lilith’s body out of the room and Chocolate finds a recording device which Video is able to turn on. The recording begins with a voice stating it was recorded on the12th day of Operation Return to Light at 9:15 Federal System time, and Kurt and his group are at Experimental Station Delta 2. Apparently, the dead scientists were three days away from a rendezvous with Omega One, who were coming to save them. The group learns that the rats, whose mutation increased their intelligence, attacked the scientists, as the rats may have resented the intrusion of humans who forced them from belowground onto the surface. The recording continues, stating the reason the rats are attacking is because Kurt and his group are intruding upon the rat’s territory, and they attack anything not of their species. Deus tells the group he believes something must have happened that has caused the men from belowground to try and make their way aboveground. The rats start to gather and gnaw at the computer room door, and Kurt tells Video and Chocolate to hide themselves behind a makeshift barricade while he and Deus try and hold the door against the rats. Outside, a group of people in white protective suits and gas masks crawl out of the sewers and make their way through the streets spraying a mist from canisters; these are the members of Delta 2. The rats are finally able to break down the door to the room and they attack and kill Kurt and Deus. Chocolate asks Video to kill her, but before he does, the smoke that the people in the protective suits were pumping out disperses the rats, and kills some of them. Chocolate and Video begin to cough and leave the building in order to get fresh air. Chocolate collapses into the arms of a Delta 2 member. Video and Chocolate are both taken outside when Video starts to ask one of the members of Delta 2 questions. Video asks if they are members of Delta 2 who live underground and if they are friends; both questions receive an affirmative head shake. The member of Delta 2 that Video was speaking to removes his gas mask and Chocolate screams as it is revealed that Delta 2 are human-rat mutants.