Young Ones is set in a near future when water has become the most
precious and dwindling resource on the planet. The land has withered
into something wretched. The dust has settled on a lonely, barren
planet. The hardened survivors of the loss of Earth’s precious resources
scrape and struggle. Ernest Holm (
Michael Shannon)
lives on this harsh
frontier with his children, Jerome
(Kodi Smit McPhee)
and Mary
(Elle
Fanning).
He defends his farm from bandits, works the supply routes, and
hopes to rejuvenate the soil. But Mary’s boyfriend, Flem Lever
(Nicholas Hoult)
, has grander designs. He wants Ernest’s land for
himself, and will go to any length to get it.