LOG LINE: One unsuspecting morning, in the year 2030, massive fuel shortages across America wreak havoc on society – one family tries to escape to their cabin in the mountains and encounters precarious events that will either bring them closer together or tear them apart.
SYNOPSIS: This disaster story takes place one momentous morning in the year 2030. An unprecedented event captures America by surprise on a scale never before experienced. For decades scientists have been predicting peak oil, with impending shortages of crude oil, the outcome of which cannot be imagined. Strangely enough the average citizen ignored all warning signs, except for Benjamin Smith, whose paranoid theories of secret conspiracies were never believed, until this day.
Dr. Benjamin and Sylvia Smith, forty-something African American professionals, happily married with two great children, awaken one dreadful day to discover fuel stations have closed coast-to-coast in record numbers. Riots have sprung in every major city in the east, while working its way west as morning evolves. Panic has consequences: Supermarkets are emptied; stores and buildings are randomly looted; gas stations that are operational have huge lines, and worst, the true nature of humans is ultimately exposed.
Ben agrees to drop the children at school for Sylvia, and to gas up the sedan. He encounters numerous stations that are closed, and one where trouble was brewing prior to his arrival. He witnesses a verbal brawl between two angry gas station patrons, and immediately following the cold-blooded shooting of an Asian man, including the grazing of a wild bullet too close to his daughter, fast and furious, Ben heads home. Along the way, he is further shocked after witnessing utter panic at a local supermarket where people have literally become heartless savages.
Later that day the Smith family hightails it to the airport with one thing in mind – to get out of the city as fast as they can, before chaos takes control of society, and to find refuge at their second home tucked safely in the mountains in Silver City, California.
One after the other, the domino effect of cancelled flights becomes unbearable for an angry crowd.
On the way home, though not in total despair after most of their fuel was siphoned, the
Smiths experience the geneses of city riots and utter chaos, right before their eyes.
Hours after giving the order to deploy one million national guardsmen, our president is suddenly announced dead, and the new regime takes control over the entire country by implementing Martial Law. Meanwhile, the Smith family, following a visit from their neighborhood mob, packs what they can in their SUV, and bright and early the next morning they abandon their beautiful home in Thousand Oaks.
The Smith’s journey to Silver City is filled with federal roadblocks and tribulations of all sorts, beginning with their abduction of a psychopathic Sheriff bent on making life miserable for anyone who isn’t white. This, and being forced at gunpoint to fill a shopping list for a drug dealer, who ends up dead at the hands of our doctor, does not discourage the Smiths from achieving their ultimate goal-cabin in Silver City.
Despite perilous encounters, including an emergency C section Ben volunteers to perform along the way on a farmer’s wife at gunpoint, they press on. But, when the Sheriff decides to complete his revenge by hunting down Ben, everything changes. The Smiths are shot at and return fire, yet the Sheriff chases Ben all the way to the base of Silver City over some of the roughest terrain smack dab into a military blockade bent on preventing Ben from saving his family.