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"Tomorrow
is another day"
1580 Central America
JESS,
a traveller, sees ANAKA, a 16 year old native
Maya girl, floating face down in a lake.
He saves her life and then agrees to come
back with her to her village.
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| Anaka
(left) and Kalu (right) try to change
the traditions of their people |
He
meets ANAKAs father, TWO TIGER, and
her 10 year old sister, KALU. ANAKAs
mother, OCELOT has been unconscious since
giving birth to a baby, POC A TOC.
JESS finds out from TWO TIGER that the people
of the village still worship the sun god,
Huitzilopochi, and believe in offering human
sacrifices. JESS realises that the chosen
sacrifice is ANAKA.
JESS meets BAZAL, the grotesquely dressed
high priest. JESS tells him that, on all
of his travels, nowhere else do they still
worship Huitzilopochi and offer human sacrifices.
JESS realises that BAZAL is corrupt. BAZAL
directly profits from the fact that the
villagers see him as the Sun Gods
chosen one.
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| Bazal
abuses his powers to keep himself in
power |
JESS tells TWO TIGER that the sacrifice
of his daughter is unnecessary. In front
of a large crowd, BAZAL claims that JESS
is a demon and that his poison has spread
to TWO TIGER. Both look set to die until
ANAKA demands their release in order for
her sacrifice to go ahead. JESS is banished
from the village but secretly returns..
JESS visits KALU and tells him of his plan
to rescue ANAKA. Outside the readiness hut,
KALU distracts the guards by juggling while
JESS enters the hut and then escapes with
ANAKA through a window.
On discovering the escape, BAZAL decides
to sacrifice ANAKAs baby sister, POC
A TOC instead. On the morning of the sacrifice,
TWO TIGER is tied to a stake and BAZAL holds
baby POC A TOC ready for the sacrifice.
ANAKA, in hiding, decides to give herself
up as the sacrifice instead of her sister.
As
the procession nears the alter, TWO TIGER
is released by OCELOT, who has awoken from
her state of unconsciousness.
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| Jess
helps rescue Anaka and ensure tomorrow
is another day... |
ANAKA
is bound to the sacrificial alter. JESS
finds a discarded urn and is able to scare
the villagers by moaning into the urn and
letting it echo against a Rock Wall. JESS
and KALU also use the looking glass to reflect
the Torchlight.
KALU
has a sheet spread over her and presents
herself to the villagers. This is the final
straw and the villagers, with the exception
of BAZAL, turn and run away.
The sheet falls revealing KALU. BAZAL goes
to kill ANAKA with the dagger but JESS intervenes.
JESS fights the more powerful BAZAL and
just as BAZAL is about to stab JESS, TWO
TIGER grabs BAZALs throat.
The villagers watch the sun come up and
want their revenge on BAZAL. TWO TIGER persuades
them that killing is wrong and spares BAZALs
life.
JESS invites ANAKA to come and travel to
distant lands with him.
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