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ONCE UPON EDEN
By Conrad Ekeke

GENRE: Mystery, Adventure, Fantasy
LOGLINE:

When a deep sleep falls upon man at Eden, he travels back to a time of his evolutionary ancestry where he must find love and overcome a pitiless persecution by his ancestral clans.

SYNOPSIS:

When God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, at the Garden of Eden, Adam travelled back in time to an epoch when the first real human - him - was just about to emerge in the world. Born of apes that have seemingly fully developed brains, Adam faced an upheaval of rejection and condemnation by his family and tribe.

His birth and existence in the midst of apes had been a direct implication of what Mazok, the leader of his ape tribe, suspected to be mystical. Adam walked, thought, looked and acted differently from every other ape in his community. He failed every test of proof of belonging and thus, was unfit to reside in their midst.

Mazok blamed Adam’s existence and emergence into his tribe on his wife, Junta, who was thrown at his feet in a bid to settle territorial disputes between his community, Euphrates, and that of Cush. However, Junta was in love with Agunz, the king of Cush, and their clandestine love brought forth Adam.

Banned by Mazok, under the supervision of his first son, Huk, Adam was to be thrown into the terrifying forestlands of “Nob”, where he would die but Junta was smart to have anticipated this fate. She’d helped Adam escape and hoped that Adam would survive in his adventure to freedom by the help of his mysterious friend.

Meanwhile, in Cush, Agunz had pressured his daughter, princess Tiya, to marry his bravest warrior, Dak, but Tiya wouldn’t adhere to her father’s will. She planned her escape a few days to their wedding and this brought suspicions between the Cush and Euphrates communities, each suspecting one another for the disappearances of both Adam and Tiya.

While Mazok saw this as a means to defeat and rule over Cush, he led his tribe, his wife; Junta, and himself to their death in a war he’d instigated. Nonetheless, his son, Huk; survived the war, and had stopped at nothing to destroy Adam.

Adam, through his adventure to freedom, had come across Tiya, who’d saved his life once, from the gruesome mandrills of Nob but being unable to survive the cruelty that shone in the jungle, she was caught by these mandrills. It was an opportunity for Adam to pay back by saving her life and together, they began their adventure towards freedom.

Caught by the treacherous warriors of Havilah, Tiya and Adam were being transported as slaves to Havilah. They met Abel, an enthusiastic young man with the determination to save his brother, Cain. Tiya was convinced by Abel, to join him in saving his brother so that he would help her find her father in return but the turnout of events, after saving Cain, isolated Tiya and Adam, to forward in their journey to freedom and to finding love.

However, Adam was convinced with the help of his mysterious friend that there existed a garden in Eden, where they could be free of all danger. He persuaded Tiya to join him find Eden Garden and called her Woman.

Their terrifying adventures had brought them closer than they’d expected but they still had Huk to encounter before entering into the Garden of Eden.

As a team, Tiya and Adam conquered Huk but left him in the jungle to die in the hands of the Havilahn warriors, as they walked into the Garden of Eden, into their freedom, into a place like no other and into love.

That’s when Adam woke up from the deep sleep, from the trance vision and saw Tiya, the woman of his dreamy adventure to freedom. They spent a few days in love and in learning their new and beautiful environment but that was never the freedom they wanted. They wanted absolute freedom, which led them into disobeying their helper, Adam’s mysterious friend.

A bite from a forbidden fruit of the tree of knowledge, lured by the ever so attractive serpent, put Adam and his wife, whom he later called Eve, into the world of their worst fears, a world of Adam’s deepest vision of rejection and brutality, and into their doom. Huk had gained a faithful army, as he survived the Havilahn enslavement and now, he would have his revenge on Adam, his half-brother, at best.

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