Reading Maps

Journeys from fiction drawn on the real world

Alfonso Cuaron · 2006 · thriller

Alfonso Cuaron's 2006 dystopia, from P.D. James's novel. In a 2027 where humanity has gone infertile and Britain has become a police state penning refugees in camps, the burnt-out ex-activist Theo Faron is asked to escort Kee - the only pregnant woman on Earth - to the coast. From London he runs her south through a collapsing country to the Bexhill camp and a boat that may reach the Human Project.

  1. 1
    London

    Theo Faron, a burnt-out bureaucrat in a London where no child has been born in eighteen years, is pulled back into danger when his ex-wife's group asks him to move a young refugee, Kee, in secret.

  2. 2
    Bexhill-on-Sea

    Kee is secretly pregnant, and Theo must get her south to the Bexhill-on-Sea refugee camp, where a corrupt guard can smuggle them to the coast - through a country tearing itself apart around them.

  3. 3
    The Tomorrow

    Through the camp's massacre Theo rows Kee and her newborn out into the Channel fog to meet the Tomorrow, the Human Project's boat, and a fragile hope for the world he will not live to see.

  • Scroll to load more
Powered by MapTiler

Children of Men Map: Alfonso Cuaron's Journey