Seeds

‘This is the sound of seeds falling on the floor. This is the bounce. This is the clatter. This is the terrible noise of them. The noise of a thousand years. The noise of a million harvests. The noise of a billion stomachs fed.” Four research scientists are freezing in the basement of the Institute of Plant Industry, forced to make impossible choices to protect life-saving seed samples against an invading army, a starving population and each other. Under siege and with hope vanishing around them, how do they preserve what matters most and find hope for our shared future?