But as he begins his research, Poynton is sucked into a fierce current of conflicting versions of what was once The Truth. Nearly 10,000 North and South Korean soldiers were killed in battle before the. Encoded in the messages, he believes, is a set of instructions that can save the planet. Unlike World War II and Vietnam, the Korean War did not get much media.

Poynton is convinced that these geo-physical messages have gone viral as a last-resort to wake up the human race, who are paying attention at last. Part space opera, part socio-political satire and part philosophical lobotomy, it’s a story about a creature-centric cosmic quest to decode the meaning of a formula encrypted in a sequence of messages from Earth to its inhabitants. On his other three screens the world has gone frikken' bezerk as it confronts the 4 Horsemxn of the Apocalypse! Through his window is an idyllic panorama devoid of humans. In a beachfront flat overlooking Muizenberg’s Surfers Corner, locked down and washed up photojournalist and New Planet TV vlogger Poynton Shute goes from mindsurfing waves - due to the novel coronavirus - to writing a coronavirus novel.

North & south episode 2