An infectious disease causing the dead to rise again has wiped out most of humanity. On a small outback farm in Australia, a young girl must protect her sister from more than just the dead.

Working in ancient Greece, Phineas is an established myth writer who has finished his latest tale about a father and a son. He meets with two young, ambitious Roman publishers, Julius and Atilus, in an attempt to sell it and put his work into the world.

Set in northern Australia before World War II, an English aristocrat who inherits a sprawling ranch reluctantly pacts with a stock-man in order to protect her new property from a takeover plot. As the pair drive 2,000 head of cattle over unforgiving landscape, they experience the bombing of Darwin by Japanese forces firsthand.

A man returns to his country only to find a society where citizens police each other with their mobile phones and where there is more freedom inside prison rather than outside it.

Coming off a devastating knee injury, Brooklyn Thompson, a young 100 meter sprinter, is pressured to take a banned substance before the biggest race of his career.