- Growing up in a remote forest cabin with his dad, Gus learns lessons about survival and the dangers that lurk beyond the fence to the outside world.
- The show opens with Dr. Singh and his wife going about their busy but loving morning. As he steps out the door he is reminded that he needs to bring home turkey. He heads to work and meets with many, many sick patients in a overcrowded clinic. One red headed woman in particular has very red, watery eyes, dripping nose and a slight but distinct twitching pinky finger. Dr. Singh goes home that evening; tired but to an obviously loving relationship with his wife. She doesn't mind that he forgot the turkey and he can just get it the next day. Fast forward: We are back in the hospital with the red headed woman from the day before but now her finger is twitching much faster. A day passes and she is much worse. More time passes and she is put into a containment room. Everyone around her is in a hazmat suits and Dr. Singh stands in the background unable to help as more and more people flood in with "the sick". It's a new plague; an epidemic. Newsfeed across every screen discuss how no one knows how to fix it and that everyone needs to stay in quarantine. Dr. Singh and his wife look out their window as helicopters, cars, people crying or screaming, and fires loudly play outside their home which is covered in plastic. A loud noise inside makes Dr. Singh look down the hall. He rushes to his wife who has fallen. He sees her finger is twitching. She has the sick! He rushes her past the fires, the people, and the barricades to the hospital where he worked. There are hoards of sick outside but they get in. We see Dr. Singh in a room alone looking scared with light tears in his eyes and on his face as he stares into nothing. A female medical staff member comes to the door looking confused and asks if he is a doctor because she needs one. Confused himself, he responds in a daze and follows her to the delivery area where at the baby viewing window a dozen parents are crying. We first see a small baby mixed with a Bald Eagle, then a porcupine, an ape, as the whole scene comes to view we realize that every infant is mixed with some animal. The Bald Eagle baby doesn't have arms but soft, fluffy wings protrude where arms should be. He has a beak like nose and mouth. All of them. Every baby in the world is born mixed with an animal.
Far away from the city a man holding a baby with deer like features (deer ears, soft fur on his nose and eyes) climbs high up a hill. He calls himself the boy's "pubba". Time passes quickly as the man builds a large fence around around an acre or two of land hidden in the woods. By the boy's 8th year, they have a beautiful farm and home where the father writes and illustrates famous books and gives them to the boy to read. He also knits him a toy dog and teaches him a mantra: What do you do if you hear a growl - I duck. What do you do if you see a person - I hide.
After a time it becomes clear that while the boy's father has taught him a lot, he also keeps a lot from him. When a plane flies over them releasing flyers saying there is a safe place for "hybrids", he hides it. When the boy asks about his mother after seeing a deer, he avoids the question. He instead tells him a tale in child storytelling fashion about how there was a "sick" that killed nearly everyone and that the outside world is filled with fires. If he leaves the fence, he will be hurt and caught by the bad people who want the world to keep burning.
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