Plot

Astraea, a telepathic teenage girl, follows her visions through a post-apocalyptic America and into a snowy wilderness. She hopes to find her family and re-build her way of life, but first she must control her gift and survive the winter.

People drop dead at the dinner table. Pilots collapse mid-flight, and planes fall suddenly out of the sky. In sixteen days, the human race is all but extinct. On a newly silent continent, where the cities stand empty but the shelves are still stocked, a sixteen-year-old girl comes of age. Led by cloudy telepathic communications, Astraea pushes her half-brother Matthew to undertake a five thousand mile journey to Nova Scotia, Canada, in hopes of rescuing her eight-year old brother. They bed-down in abandoned homes, plunder stores, and move through the lonely, hushed world with an unthinking devotion to forward movement and an unlikely hope of finding survivors. In the snowbound forests of Maine, Astraea's clairvoyant visions intensify, and they press urgently northward. But then they come across James and Callie, a couple who have managed to build a life on a frozen lakeshore. Suddenly, the relief of companionship and comfort - as well as the excitement of romance, and a new baby - clashes with an oath sworn in another time. Astraea burns to set out into the wintery backwoods, intent on keeping her promise of rescue, but Matthew begins to put down roots. As the ice thaws, Astraea must decide between following her cryptic visions of faraway survivors, and staying within the comfort of the growing family that surrounds her.—Anonymous

When disease nearly wipes out the human race, a telepathic teenage girl named Astraea believes her visions confirm that survivors are living in Northern Canada. She leads her doubting brother on a five-thousand mile journey, through a silent America, and into the snowbound wilderness, hoping to rebuild life as she knew it. As they head North, her clairvoyance intensifies and they encounter another couple homesteading on a remote lake in Maine. The grief and complexity - as well as the excitement and comfort - of communal living pits itself against Astraea's desire to keep moving and find her family. Astraea is a post-apocalyptic film that finally shows not what humanity is running from, but what we're running toward.