The child lay in her bed. She has just woken up and jumps out of it. She is happy, as she is going to the park with her parents later in the day. She leaves her room and sees her mom cooking breakfast. Debra wishes her a good morning. Ava smiles at her. “That smells delicious mom.” She smiles back. Dad comes out of his room. “Your daughter should not have a better sleep schedule than you,” Debra jokingly says. She and Ava smirk. “She doesn’t have an 8-5 shift 5 days of the week,” he jokingly responds. The 3 fill up on breakfast and then get dressed for the day. They go to the park and stroll around it for an hour and a half. They feed the squirrels, run on the playground, and they finish with Dad pushing Ava on the swing. It was a fun day. Exactly what Ava wanted. They return home after they finish swinging. Ava is giggling in excitement and happiness as they enter their apartment. Debra tells the 2 she will start dinner in an hour. 35 minutes into the hour, there is a loud and quick banging on the door. Dad runs and opens it. It is Dean. “We have to go!” Dean says as soon as the door is opened. The 3 are confused. “Can you explain?” Dad asks. Dean has a look and fear and worry as he responds. “A bomb large enough to take out 2 countries just got launched from an unknown country. They don’t know why it was launched but they don’t know how to stop it. We have to go now!” Dean had been working for the government for 18 years. Ava knows this and immediately believes he’s telling the truth, as did Dad and Debra. Without any hesitation, he picks up Ava and tells Debra to hurry. They rush downstairs and enter Dean’s car. He didn’t usually drive it himself but his rush today changed that. They arrive at Dean’s house. Dean has a lot of money, which was always apparent to Ava. Dean leads them to the back of his house and then to his bunker. He opens a door that leads 45 feet underground. Ava is noticeably scared. Dean waits to close the bunker door until they hear the air raid sirens. Outside of it, Ava notices a squirrel. It looks cute and playful and reminds her of the ones she feeds at the park. She leaves the bunker to try and grab it. It is not until the air raid sirens go off that they realize she left it. The squirrel keeps running further away as she gets closer to it. She follows it as she continues her attempt to grab it. She is startled by the sirens but heeps trying to grab the squirrel. As soon as Dad leaves the bunker, Dean and Debra see a bright yellow flashing and mushroom cloud from over the horizon. Dean makes the realization that he will not make it back if he goes after Ava. So he does the first thing that comes to mind that Debra wouldn’t be able to. He grabs Dad and, even with him fighting back, forces him into the bunker. He quickly shuts the bunker door behind them. Dad and Debra scream for their daughter. They do not hear screams. They only see the blast winds that passes and looms over the bunker door.
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The assailant lives a life stained by violence, working as a hired killer for a shadowy organization known as The Huntsman. His only solace is Debra, his wife, with whom he shares a quiet but strained existence, the ghost of their lost daughter a constant presence. When a chance encounter with a young girl triggers a buried conscience, he breaks his oath and becomes the hunted. Forced to flee, they seek refuge in a seemingly peaceful village, only to find that the long reach of The Huntsman extends even to this remote haven. A relentless and brutal tracker is on their trail, turning their desperate flight into a deadly game of cat and mouse.
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