Restart the Earth (2021)

When a drug to replicate plant cells creates a sentient form of flower, the planet is over taken by flora and humankind is depleted. A Chinese task force, a widowed father and his young daughter fight to survive in a mission to inject an antidote to the core of the plants to reverse their growth.

In Restart the Earth, consciousness is carried by machines — a plane of “planetary exodus”. The story fights on E10/E14 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing survival, technology, governance, coordination, sacrifice.