In the end, defend.

A young husband and wife must fight to return home in a post-apocalyptic mid-western landscape ravaged by gangs.
The Domestics keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9/E11 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.