Television series based on the best selling Young Adult trilogy of novels by Mandy Hager
The Blood of the Lamb is set on the fictional Pacific island of Onewēre, approximately three generations after an apocalyptic event. At the time of the solar flare, a large cruise ship “Star of the Sea” had just foundered at the entrance to Onewēre’s main lagoon. This cruise ship, and her accompanying crew, forms a temporary sanctuary for the island’s native inhabitants. Over the intervening years, the ship becomes the symbol of rescue and redemption – the ‘temple’ of a cargo cult, where the descendants of the original ship’s captain and officers manipulate Christian texts to implant themselves as ‘gods’. With greater resources and reserves than the islanders, this white elite – headed by megalomaniac Father Joshua – re-builds a society that, although ostensibly for the benefit of all, is predominantly designed to meet its own needs - especially one specialised ‘need’…the need for blood. Maryam, a chosen island girl, at first fully indoctrinated by the cult, decides to escape her fate and flee sending her on a journey across the ocean in discovery of a world she had been told no longer exsisted. In doing so, will she also discover the key to her people’s freedom?
Original Story by Mandy Hager
Writer and Creative Showrunner Emily Corcoran, Executive Produced by Merryn Corcoran for Cork Creative