American-girl, Daisy, is shipped off to England to live with her cousins in a rural area so she can get embroiled in a war. She has lots of voices in her head telling her rules, but she mostly likes to sulk, overreact and snipe at everyone. Then she notices cousin Eddie staring at her and at first hates him, but when he licks the blood off her hand where she injured herself she starts warming up to him. He frolics in the lake with her so she finally opens up because she realizes he's dreamy and telepathic and handles skittish, hurt animals and angry girls well.
Then the little girl in the family picks petals off a flower, just like the famous nuclear war political ad from the 60s. Uh oh, nuclear war has begun in England and there is some weird weather. The kids decide to hide in a barn for some reason instead of their house but now Daisy has suddenly decided she's in eternal love with cousin Eddie. They do the wild thing and Daisy has finally gotten rid of the voices in her head telling her rules. She's growing into a woman now so she can be responsible for herself and her new experiences. She doesn't need no stinking rules anymore!
But just after discovering her first telepathic boy-crush, soldiers show up to take all the kids to safe haven communities away from where terrorists will find them (or so they think). They separate the boys from the girls and Daisy and her day-old romance are brutally torn apart. Eddie yells to her to remember what he told her (that they should always make their way back to the farm area if anything bad happens since it's their eternal happy place).
The girls are sent to live with a Scottish woman in a nice house inside a military-like installation. Daisy and the little girl are made to work on a farm and grow vegetables. Daisy is plotting her escape back to the farm to be with telepathic, dreamy Eddie. She looks at maps and pilfers packaged goods to eat on her escape. One day after farming work is over for the day, the rebels attack the caravan and their safe haven so she and the little girl run off to go back to the farm for her eternal, telepathic lover. Luckily she is all ready to leave.
The two girls walk back to the farm for a week and find out you should avoid men in the wild along the way. They are trouble and will all try rape you or chase you and they might need to be shot if you can't hide from them. They also find chocolates in a crashed plane's wreckage. They find out the younger cousin who is a boy has been killed (maybe as a child soldier).
They finally make it back to the farm-area by using Daisy's eternal telepathic connection to Eddie after she loses her map and compass. When she wishes for help from him, she has dreams or a hawk- friend guides her back. She has the special, eternal kind of teen romance that comes with supernatural abilities!
When she finally finds cousin Eddie, he has recently been injured and is lying in the woods near the farm. She nurses him back to health, but he has been scarred by the war so is now mute. The war ends as she's nursing him and finally all she can do is lick Eddie's hand where he accidentally injured it to show she cares. How the roles have changed, now she's the strong one helping Eddie to heal his psychic wounds just as he did for her.
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Overall the movie is mediocre because of the ludicrous script and the actors have to work very hard to try to pull it off. The girl playing Daisy tries hard, has a pretty decent American accent but doesn't feel convincing as an American teen (the attitude and the way she carries herself don't quite work, and I've seen plenty of surly American teens).
The main problem is the awful script with too much and too many corny things packed into its short length. The director tries, but this movie was stillborn before he started.
Then the little girl in the family picks petals off a flower, just like the famous nuclear war political ad from the 60s. Uh oh, nuclear war has begun in England and there is some weird weather. The kids decide to hide in a barn for some reason instead of their house but now Daisy has suddenly decided she's in eternal love with cousin Eddie. They do the wild thing and Daisy has finally gotten rid of the voices in her head telling her rules. She's growing into a woman now so she can be responsible for herself and her new experiences. She doesn't need no stinking rules anymore!
But just after discovering her first telepathic boy-crush, soldiers show up to take all the kids to safe haven communities away from where terrorists will find them (or so they think). They separate the boys from the girls and Daisy and her day-old romance are brutally torn apart. Eddie yells to her to remember what he told her (that they should always make their way back to the farm area if anything bad happens since it's their eternal happy place).
The girls are sent to live with a Scottish woman in a nice house inside a military-like installation. Daisy and the little girl are made to work on a farm and grow vegetables. Daisy is plotting her escape back to the farm to be with telepathic, dreamy Eddie. She looks at maps and pilfers packaged goods to eat on her escape. One day after farming work is over for the day, the rebels attack the caravan and their safe haven so she and the little girl run off to go back to the farm for her eternal, telepathic lover. Luckily she is all ready to leave.
The two girls walk back to the farm for a week and find out you should avoid men in the wild along the way. They are trouble and will all try rape you or chase you and they might need to be shot if you can't hide from them. They also find chocolates in a crashed plane's wreckage. They find out the younger cousin who is a boy has been killed (maybe as a child soldier).
They finally make it back to the farm-area by using Daisy's eternal telepathic connection to Eddie after she loses her map and compass. When she wishes for help from him, she has dreams or a hawk- friend guides her back. She has the special, eternal kind of teen romance that comes with supernatural abilities!
When she finally finds cousin Eddie, he has recently been injured and is lying in the woods near the farm. She nurses him back to health, but he has been scarred by the war so is now mute. The war ends as she's nursing him and finally all she can do is lick Eddie's hand where he accidentally injured it to show she cares. How the roles have changed, now she's the strong one helping Eddie to heal his psychic wounds just as he did for her.
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Overall the movie is mediocre because of the ludicrous script and the actors have to work very hard to try to pull it off. The girl playing Daisy tries hard, has a pretty decent American accent but doesn't feel convincing as an American teen (the attitude and the way she carries herself don't quite work, and I've seen plenty of surly American teens).
The main problem is the awful script with too much and too many corny things packed into its short length. The director tries, but this movie was stillborn before he started.