T Alone With 6 Girls on an Island, The Boy is Forced to Repopulate Earth

 Alone With 6 Girls on an Island, The Boy is Forced to Repopulate Earth

After a night of passion, Petra and James wake 

up together early in the morning. Petra rushes  

out to go to class, but James decides to stay in 

bed a little longer. This causes him to oversleep,  

and by the time he wakes up again, he’s already 

late. He runs through the city as fast as he can  

until he makes it to his Philosophy class, where 

the teacher Mister Zimit at first considers not  

letting him, but eventually he opens the door. 

Today is the last school day, and Mister Zimit  

wants the students to tell them about their 

favorite thought exercise they’ve gone through.  

Chips mentions the infinite monkey theorem, which 

says that if you give a monkey a typewriter and an  

infinite amount of time, it will eventually type 

out the entire Hamlet. Jack mentions the trolley  

problem, which says you have a lever to choose 

if a train will kill one or four people. Just  

for fun, they change that riddle into the obese 

man problem, where you have to option to push a  

fat man on the tracks to stop the trolley. 

Georgina likes the ignorant bliss paradox:  

in this one, someone is hanging off the highest 

tower in the city on purpose to test if their  

friends will help them. However the friends are 

afraid if they try to pull them up, they might be  

yanked over themselves, so they step back. The 

person falls and lives, but now they wonder if  

it truly is better knowing that their friends 

wouldn’t save them or if ignorance is bliss.  

Zimit decides that they will do one last thought 

exercise to finish the school year: the class must  

assume there is an impending atomic apocalypse and 

imagine a bunker that will give them shelter for  

a year. Zimit begins narrating the scene to make 

everyone use their imaginations, picturing an area  

surrounded by nuclear explosions. As Zimit takes 

them through an imaginary tour of the bunker,  

he points out the problem: there are only supplies 

for ten people. The class has twenty students in  

it, so they have to decide which of them to let in 

and who stays out, on top of that there isn't much  

time to decide before the atomic radiation reaches 

them. Georgina refuses to participate because she  

thinks it’s just like discussing eugenics, but 

when Zimit describes how gruesome and painful  

it is to die under radiation, she accepts to 

play. Petra also refuses to participate and even  

stands up to leave, knowing that she’s always 

had perfect grades and Zimit can’t hurt her by  

lowering them a bit. However Zimit threatens to 

lower James’ grades instead, which would make him  

fail the class, and Petra has no choice but to 

stay. Next, Zimit distributes cards containing  

the random profession each student will have in 

the exercise. He opens the box for James first,  

and after he takes a card, Zimit goes to the desk 

to cough before handing a card to Petra. Then he  

coughs against at the desk before giving cards 

to everyone else. Now the students can look at  

the professions they got: all these jobs vary 

in themes, from harpist and wine auctioneer  

to astronaut and chemist. Toby reveals he’s a 

published poet, but he barely gets to finish  

talking before Zimit shoots him, revealing he 

took the gun from the bunker. Zimit explains  

that this is more humane than letting him die by 

radiation, since he wouldn't get into the bunker  

anyway because a poet isn’t useful when humanity 

must be rebuilt. Zimit also explains he’s part  

of the exercise, but his profession is hidden so 

he should be seen as a wild card. Afterward each  

student defends their right to enter the bunker 

and they proceed to vote. The first nine choices  

are those who they consider useful for survival: 

Petra the structural engineer, James the farmer,  

Georgina the orthopedic surgeon, Chips the 

carpenter, Jack the chemist, Bonnie the soldier,  

Andy the electrician, Poppie the psychotherapist, 

and Omosedé the senator. There are also nine that  

quickly get voted out for not being useful: Vivian 

the zoologist, Beatrice the fashion designer,  

Parker the gelato maker, Kavi the real estate 

agent, Russell the harpist, Plum the hedge-fund  

manager, Nelson the house-keeper, Mitzie the wine 

auctioneer, and Yoshiko the astronaut. The last  

place must be chosen between Zimit and Utami the 

opera singer. Petra thinks a wild card is a risk,  

but Jack points out that an opera singer is 

a luxury and he’d rather risk it with Zimit,  

who may have a useful secret. Zimit wins, 

and now that the groups are completed,  

they take five minutes to say goodbye, so 

they move the desks around to pretend they’re  

having their final words. Suddenly they hear 

some gunshots and discover Zimit has killed  

everyone who didn’t get a spot, again saying it 

was the humane thing to do. The group is shocked,  

and Petra whispers to James that she doesn’t 

want Zimit in the bunker anymore. James makes  

a plan and asks everyone to gather some plants 

before going into the bunker, claiming they’re  

keeping them for replanting when they come out. 

While everyone is separated to do the gathering,  

James goes to each of them in turn and tells them 

of his plan. When the time comes, the group enters  

the bunker and disables the external keypad before 

closing the door while Zimit is left outside. Then  

they take a look at the different rooms: there’s 

an artificial garden, a day bed, a gym, books,  

and other things to supposedly avoid depression. 

In the evening while everyone sleeps on the cots,  

James meets Petra on the big bed and tells her 

he can get through anything with her. Once James  

falls asleep, Petra goes to check on Zimit and 

finds him slowly burning under the radiation.  

Suddenly Zimit holds up a piece of paper that says 

only he has the exit code. Petra immediately calls  

the group and they begin arguing over what to do, 

unsure if believing Zimit or not. In the end they  

decide to ignore him, and they begin to live 

through the year in the bunker. It’s incredibly  

boring, and they barely can keep themselves 

busy with mundane tasks. Every day Petra checks  

on Zimit's body, which is slowly rotting, and 

occasionally a dog comes to munch on it. Once  

the year passes, the group gets ready to come 

out, only to discover Zimit had been right: the  

lock asks for an exit code. The students proceed 

to use different methods to try to break the door,  

to no avail. They try to survive a few more days 

with the few supplies they have left, but soon  

they run out, so they decide to end things for 

themselves for a more humane ending. In class,  

Zimit announces they failed the experiment and 

reveals his profession is a bunker builder,  

in fact he was the one that built that particular 

bunker and therefore the only one who has the  

code. The students want to try again, and this 

time they imagine a new location, choosing Mont  

Bromo. Once again Zimit runs to grab a gun, which 

Petra notices. Then it’s revealed that the cards  

hide a second characteristic that may influence 

the votes. James’ characteristic is being gay, but  

he still gets accepted for his farming knowledge, 

although with fewer votes. Georgina the surgeon  

was exposed to the ebola virus, so this time 

she’s left out. Plum the hedge fund manager always  

travels with a bag of gold, so she is accepted. 

Chips the carpenter is infertile, but he’s also  

accepted again because of his skills. Petra 

the structural engineer is also an electrical  

engineer, so she is saved. Andy the electrician 

reveals he has a very rare disease that may kill  

him at any second, so he’s rejected. Poppie the 

psychotherapist can’t have children, so she’s left  

out. Vivian the zoologist reveals she supports 

PETA, so she is left out again. Jack the chemist  

won the genetic lottery, meaning he’ll live long 

and healthy, so he’s accepted again. Kavi the real  

estate agent is also a midwife, and since they’ve 

lost Georgina as their doctor, he gets to stay  

this time. Parker the gelato maker has no extra 

characteristic, which means someone else has two,  

and he’s left out. Utami the opera singer has two: 

she can speak seven languages but she will develop  

a throat tumor in three years that won’t let her 

talk anymore, so she’s left out. Mitzie the wine  

auctioneer has an IQ of 200 yet she’s left out 

again. Beatrice the fashion designer created a  

popular brand of women's clothing out of bamboo, 

but she’s also left out again, and the same  

happens to Russell the harpist who is autistic. 

Omosedé the senator will be the first female  

chief justice of the supreme court, therefore she 

is saved again. Bonnie the soldier has eidetic  

memory and gets saved once more. Nelson the 

housekeeper is an “exceptionally kind person”,  

which at first doesn’t help him, but he ends up 

staying when Petra says that they need more boys  

and Omosedé argues that they need more hard and 

strong workers from the middle class. When Toby  

the poet is about to mention his characteristic, 

Zimit shoots him again, saying this spot is for  

him because the group still doesn’t know the code. 

Then Zimit gives Georgina the keys to a truck,  

and the people that were left outside immediately 

try to run away to save themselves. Unfortunately,  

the vehicle is hit by the explosion. The chosen 

ones also begin running to reach the bunker just  

in time, and the boring everyday life begins once 

again. Later in the evening, Petra wakes up and  

sees James isn’t on his bed, so she goes looking 

for him only to find him getting frisky with Jack,  

who turns out to be gay in real life. Petra 

is hurt and rushes out to tell the rest of the  

group what she saw, now they decide it’s time to 

discuss how they will get together to procreate.  

Since Chips is infertile, he doesn’t need to help, 

while Jack and James refuse to participate because  

they can’t even fake it with a woman for the sake 

of babies. Bonnie and Kavi are paired together,  

and so are Omosedé and Nelson. As revenge for 

her boyfriend, Petra accepts to do it with Zimit,  

ignoring James when he says she still loves her. 

While the explosions outside ravage the planet,  

the three couples get frisky at the same 

time. After ten weeks of no pregnancies,  

Zimit points out that they must change couples, 

saying the girls should have multiple partners.  

Bonnie refuses, saying they are taking logic 

too far to solve things and that shouldn’t  

override her consent. Zimit walks away only to 

return with a gun in hand, threatening everyone  

but Bonnie to leave the room. The group runs 

out but Jack manages to hide behind a corner,  

and once Zimit is distracted, Jack tackles him and 

makes him drop the gun. Bonnie quickly picks it up  

and holds Zimit at gunpoint, but the guys continue 

to fight until Zimit overpowers Jack. However Jack  

retaliates by stabbing Zimit in the ear with a 

pen. Devastated, Zimit goes to the front door  

and puts in the code to open it, bringing everyone 

down with him. The class has failed the exercise  

again. James is more suspicious now and questions 

Zimit's motives for the exercise, mentioning the  

strange cough he had when he assigned him and 

Petra the roles and pointing out that Zimit has  

not coughed since. Suddenly James goes to the desk 

and grabs the box, running out of Zimit’s reach  

to open it and discover the secret. It turns 

out the the box has hidden compartments and  

James’ and Petra's cards have been tampered with, 

meaning they would always get the same results:  

gay farmer and double engineer. James wants 

to know why Zimit hates him in particular,  

so Zimit brings up the allegory of Plato's cave. 

In this allegory, a man lives his whole life  

chained to a wall and only ever sees shadows and 

hears echoes, assuming that’s how reality truly  

looks and sounds. One day the man is unchained 

and finds that the shadows are caused by bodies  

and the echoes are caused by voices, discovering 

that the whole idea of what was real was just  

an illusion. Zimit says that this allegory 

is something like James, claiming that the  

exercise is meant to confront James about how his 

privilege has ill-prepared him for the real world,  

but James doesn’t believe him. Zimit could’ve 

made him something useless like a florist so  

he could be voted out since the beginning, but 

a gay farmer means Zimit wanted him to prolong  

his suffering on purpose. At that moment Petra 

interrupts the argument and insists that the  

exercise should be done a third time, this time 

with James as a florist. Now their imaginations  

take them to an island and the apocalypse hasn’t 

happened yet. Zimit goes to the bunker to grab  

a weapon as usual, and he hears a noise but 

thinks nothing of it. When he goes back outside,  

Petra joins him and offers him a hug, saying 

that she knows it's been hard on him. Afterward,  

Petra asks everyone to trust her to choose who 

gets to enter the bunker because she has a plan.  

When everyone agrees, Petra makes her choices and 

explains her reasoning. Mitzie is saved because a  

genius wine auctioneer would be smart enough 

to bring both red and white wine on a trip,  

ensuring everyone has a good time. Beatrice is 

saved because dressing well boosts self-esteem,  

which promotes productivity and could save 

civilization. Toby’s second skill turns out to  

be champion poker player, so he’s saved because 

he brought cards with him and he’ll provide  

entertainment. Russell is also saved because many 

people consider autism a gift. Georgina was only  

exposed to ebola but they don’t have proof she 

has it, so Petra brings her in while promising  

to pray for her. Utami the opera singer may be 

mute in three years, but now everyone could fall  

asleep to her singing so she also gets saved. 

Jack is taken in because of his perfect genes,  

but he is upset because he’ll be without a partner 

because of his orientation. At that moment Parker  

comes out of the closet, so he’s saved as well. 

With only two spots left, Petra chooses James. As  

the chosen ones enter the bunker, in the classroom 

everyone sits together as a team. Zimit has been  

complaining all along and with each choice, he 

lowers Petra’s grade to the point of failing, but  

seeing the useless people enter the bunker makes 

him lose it and he reaches for his gun. However he  

doesn’t find it, it turns out Petra stole it when 

she hugged him earlier. She gives it back to him,  

only to reveal it’s not loaded. Petra hands Zimit 

two bullets, saying she doesn't want him to suffer  

like last time, but at that moment James threatens 

Zimit with a rifle, it turns out he had been the  

noise in the bunker. Desperate to survive, Zimit 

says that nobody knows the exit code except him,  

but Bonnie used her perfect memory to memorize 

it during the last run. Feeling defeated, Zimit  

leaves. Next Petra wants to give the last slot 

to Bonnie, but since she refuses, Chips takes the  

spot. James is no longer gay in this itineration 

of the exercise and begs Petra to come with them,  

but she refuses, saying she’ll take the boat and 

try to get out of the radiation zone, only for  

Chips to reveal he has the boat keys. Acting fast, 

Chips pushes Petra inside, switching places with  

her before the door closes. While the rest of the 

group rushes to the boat to get off the island,  

Petra continues to narrate the thought exercise, 

explaining that despite horrific circumstances,  

somehow they had fun during the year in the 

bunker because they had cards, wine, Shakespeare  

performances, and original poems. James tells 

Petra how much he loves her, but she hesitates to  

respond with the same phrase. When machines break 

in the bunker, they use the pieces to make a harp,  

and Russell plays it while Utami sings to make 

their evenings magical. Once the year passes, the  

group leaves the bunker only to discover that the 

bombs never fell. Zimit narrates that they will  

die, as none of them have the technical skills 

to survive on an island, but Petra responds that  

their lives will be short but at least they’ll be 

well and happy, they’ll also be ready to welcome  

death when it arrives. Suddenly a rocket falls 

on the beach and James gets ready to detonate it,  

but at that moment Zimit shows up and shoots 

to stop him. It turns out he had found a cave  

and went deep enough to avoid the radiation, for 

the past year he has been surviving with what he  

could find there. Zimit can’t let them commit an 

act as unreasonable as ending the human race and  

threatens to shoot James with his last bullet, 

but the rest of the survivors move one by one to  

stand in front of him as a shield. They use 

the chance to press the detonation button,  

and the bomb blows up the entire island. Back in 

class, Zimit is ashamed of the latest exercise,  

but Chips quickly cuts in to offer his own 

version as well. He says that the boat managed  

to go far enough to avoid the explosion, and 

he became the only guy with six women all to  

himself. The group wonders what happened to the 

three other males, and Chips says Kavi drowned,  

Nelson had a barracuda attack, and Andy had 

a run-in with the palm tree. Being infertile  

doesn't mean the chance of procreation is zero, so 

in this ending, Chips taps a different girl each  

day. Zimit finally finishes the class, and all the 

students leave except Petra, who accuses Zimit of  

trying to use the exercise to punish James. It 

turns out Zimit has been having an affair with  

Petra, and he believes James is beneath her. Petra 

explains that intelligence isn't all that matters  

and that she loves James, so he shouldn’t be 

punished for something he doesn’t know about  

anyway. Petra gives Zimit a last kiss and leaves. 

Afterward Zimit is alone in the school and begins  

running through many variations of what happens if 

he goes to his office. Sometimes he simply eats,  

but other times he finds his gun and 

a shot can be heard in the building.