An obsessed scientist and an embittered test pilot have to face their own deaths if they’re to successfully avert an energy war by retrieving precious fuel that is protected by a mysterious and deadly force.

Rogue Moon is an animated feature film based on the cult Sci Fi novel by Algis Budris written in 1960, adapted by Eoghan Kidney.

ROGUE MOON STORY SYNOPSIS
2053. The oil has run out. The world is on the brink of an energy war. But there is a glimmer of hope - the obsessive military scientist Dr. Edward Hawks believes a rare fuel only found on the surface of the moon can avert the crisis. Since traditionally fuelled rockets are no longer viable, the only hope of reaching the fuel is his experiment, the unfinished Quantum Displacer - a human teleporter.

As people around him flee to avoid imminent attacks, the obsessive Hawks has decided to remain in his lab, desperately trying to complete the Displacer. But there is a problem: while the volunteers are being transported to the moon they get trapped in an inter-dimensional rift. Mentally linked to this trapped version of themselves they co-exist - one version of the man on earth in a state of stasis, the other version fully functioning and conscious left to explore the enigmatic Rift. There they are inevitably killed for violating the unknown rules at force within. This results in the volunteers repeatedly experiencing their own death; an experience which inevitably drives them insane.

Hawks needs to find a man that can endure the Rift, a man not afraid to face his own death – many times over. This will allow Hawks to finish calibrating the Quantum Displacer, retrieve the fuel and avoid the impending war. Their last hope is Al Barker - war hero, extreme sports star and legendary test pilot, a man with a passion for death but one who is also rumoured to be unpredictable and violent.

Bar a handful of loyal assistants, most staff members have fled the research complex. Hawk’s boss, Admiral Cobey, is
leaving to fight in the war but agrees to assign a final ration of power for the teleporter experiments. Hawks is understaffed and running out of time.

Together, Dr. Ed Hawks and Al Barker embark on a grueling test of wills as their mission is threatened by a clash of personalities and the disintegration of Barker’s mind. Barker’s tempestuous lover Claire Pax also adds to the tension as her sexual power plays provoke conflict. The relationships between the three play with notions of power and desire.

As Barker becomes weakened by his repeated teleports, Claire’s masochistic tendencies surface and she becomes less
enamored with him, adding to his disintegration. Claire starts to make a play for Hawks – the flirting climaxes in a steamy bar scene where she sings seductively to him – he is almost seduced but in a dramatic turn of events finishing the experiment and saving the planet from war prevail.

The ration of power runs out, the armies are poised to begin the fighting, even the loyal assistants desert the project and Barker, after his dangerous journeys to the Rift, becomes increasingly violent and erratic. Together the characters realise that they might have to sacrifice themselves if they are to succeed in averting the mass destruction threatened by the imminent war.

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