The Hughes Brothers · 2010 · road

The Hughes Brothers' 2010 film. Thirty years after a nuclear war has scorched America, a lone wanderer named Eli walks ever westward across the ruined continent, guarding the last surviving Bible. Through lawless towns and killers who covet the book's power, he fights his way to the Pacific coast - and to Alcatraz, where survivors are struggling to preserve the knowledge of a lost world.

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   The wasteland

   For thirty years since the nuclear war, a solitary man called Eli has walked west across the ash-grey ruin of America, carrying and guarding the last copy of the Bible, told by a voice that he must take it to the coast.

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   The town

   In a lawless desert township ruled by the tyrant Carnegie, Eli's book is recognized for the power it holds over desperate people. Carnegie will kill for it - and Eli must fight his way clear and keep moving west.

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   San Francisco

   Wounded and pursued, Eli reaches the shattered Pacific coast at last near the ruins of San Francisco, at the very western edge of the dead continent he has crossed on foot for a generation.

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   Alcatraz

   On Alcatraz Island in the bay, a band of survivors is preserving the books and music of the old world. There Eli delivers his charge - the words carried whole across a continent - before his long walk finally ends.