- 7/2/2025
A woman story
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00:00An alien aircraft breaks the silence of the night sky and starts falling towards the earth,
00:04rapidly catching fire as it enters the atmosphere. The spaceship collapses into a lake and two
00:09heavily armored men emerge from the ruins. One of them helps his companion get out of the water,
00:13and as he passes out, he has brief flashbacks of the past. Upon awakening, the spaceman realizes
00:18that his companion has died of a severe chest wound. In the distance, he hears a robotic call,
00:24being a computer stranded in the lake. The man saves the machine and asks in an unknown language
00:28for information about the planet they landed on. He also asks about the whereabouts of other ships,
00:33but the computer tells him that there are no records of nearby ships. After his disappointment,
00:37the man prepares for the computer to download and transfer to him a series of data about the planet,
00:42its civilization, species, languages, and culture, something difficult and painful for the man to
00:47assimilate. After that, he seems to gain a second breeze and practices his aim with a destructive
00:52gun that managed to survive the collision. At nightfall, he makes a grave for his fallen colleague.
00:56The Outlander's new mission is to survive the unknown area, a vast forest, using only his gun.
01:02In the search, he finds the lifeless body of a whale next to a destroyed and abandoned village with
01:06signs of an attack by something other than a human. Noticing that he is being observed,
01:11the Outlander flees, but is intercepted by a horse rider who knocks him unconscious and causes
01:15his weapon to get lost in the river. While passed out, the Outlander is taken hostage to a nearby
01:20Viking village that is surrounded by a wooden wall. In a great hall, young Freya and her father,
01:24King Rothgar, have a sword fight. Freya tells her father that she will not marry her suitor Wulfric,
01:30a pretender to the king's throne. The battle concludes when Freya's father cuts her shoulder,
01:34so he decides to heal her. Wulfric shows up, but his pedantic attitude only makes Freya dislike him
01:39and leave. Rothgar and Wulfric talk about how a nearby village was destroyed, and Wulfric tells him
01:44that on their inspection, they managed to capture a man, but he apparently doesn't belong to any known
01:48village. Their hostage, the Spaceman, is displayed in front of the villagers, amazed and mocked by his
01:54clothing. Wulfric takes the man to a hut for questioning. He asks the Outlander his name,
01:59and he says his name is Kenan. Kenan lies to them, saying that he is from an island in the north and
02:04is actually there hunting dragons, but the men don't believe him and think it was him who attacked
02:07the nearby village. Kenan tries to escape, but the Vikings are too strong for him. After being held,
02:13Kenan tries to escape using a burning iron bar, but just before he succeeds, Freya appears to attend to
02:18him, as Wulfric requested. Rothgar asks Wulfric about the Outlander at dusk, but Wulfric tells him
02:24that he refuses to cooperate. Rothgar tells him that Gunnar, the chief of the destroyed village,
02:29must be sought out and explained that they were not the ones who attacked him. Wulfric hesitates
02:33about this, as he has a grudge against Gunnar for killing his father, the former king of the village,
02:37but Rothgar explains that this was because his father was reckless, and he does not want the same
02:41fate for him. Back to Freya and Kenan, she asks him if he was the one who attacked the village,
02:45but he denies it. Before proceeding, Kenan breaks free and attacks Freya and his guard,
02:50trouncing him. Kenan tries to flee in the middle of the night, and his plan would have worked,
02:55except for the alarm starting to sound and announcing an enemy attack. All the Vikings
02:59rush into action, thinking it's Gunnar taking revenge. They are surprised to see no one outside,
03:03only to realize that the enemy is already inside the village. An unknown enemy starts a killing and
03:08burning spree, a tentacled creature hiding in the stables. Kenan starts chasing the beast,
03:13but his guard starts chasing him. The guard is later killed by the mysterious monster,
03:17who carries him to the edge of the wooden wall. Kenan calls the creature Morwen,
03:21the real dragon he was looking for. Before going for it, the Vikings find Kenan,
03:25only to tie him to a rock. There, Kenan has flashbacks of Morwen attacking his world and
03:30him lamenting the loss of his people. The next day, a poor village boy offers some bread to Kenan,
03:35who accepts with suspicion. The village men try to find out who might have caused last night's
03:39invasion. They take Kenan to Rothkar, asking him about the supposed dragon he is hunting.
03:44Kenan explains to them that the so-called Morwen also attacked his people and that it lures beings
03:48with lights and then murders them. He confesses that he brought the Morwen to the village,
03:52but just before Kenan is executed, Rothkar intercedes for him, claiming that he doesn't
03:56quite believe his story. Kenan understands that they will hunt Morwen, so he asks Rothkar to go with
04:01them. The Vikings give him a horse and Freya a punch for the earlier attack, and it is then that
04:05they leave the village to look for the beast. A smith named Boromir offers Kenan some mead,
04:10but Kenan spits it out. Rothkar strikes up a conversation with Kenan, and he tells the king
04:14that if they don't stop Morwen, the village will have the same fate as his home. Wulfric announces
04:19several corpses in the area and proposes to form expedition groups, but Kenan does not consider
04:24this plan viable, considering it better to stay together. Still, Rothkar prefers to go in pairs.
04:29While investigating, a severed horse's head falls from the heights to Rothkar and Boromir.
04:33Another couple finds charred corpses outside a cave, and soon they find something dangerous.
04:38After hearing the screams of terror from the couple in the cave, they all congregate to go
04:42inside. They find a bear and start a fight, defeating it not without some resistance.
04:46During the struggling, Kenan delivers the final blow with his sword. Rothkar decides to spare
04:51Kenan's life after defeating the bear, granting him his freedom. The village celebrates the victory
04:56over the bear with a feast. Amid the celebration, Kenan appears again, only this time in the people's
05:01own clothing. To his surprise, everyone welcomes him warmly, and he goes to eat with Rothkar.
05:06At dinner, the boy who gave Kenan bread appears, and Kenan decides to return the favor by lending him
05:11the mighty sword that killed the bear, on the condition that he should tell him his name, to which the
05:15boy only replies Eric. Rothkar explains to Kenan that Eric's parents died, and they are taking care
05:20of him. Wulfric decides to start a game called Shields and challenges Kenan. Several men make a square
05:25course using only their shields, and the competitors must climb on them and then grope their way forward.
05:29After a series of pirouettes, Kenan falls on Boromir, but Wulfric, far from mocking, helps
05:35him up, now trusting him more as the people cheer their new member. After leaving the Great Hall,
05:39Kenan meets Freya, who thanks him for helping her father on the expedition. Kenan explains to Freya
05:44that it was not the bear who killed her people, but the Morwen, and that it will return any time.
05:49Suddenly, Gunnar's Viking group begins an enemy attack, bursting into the village. There is a clash
05:54of swords between the two sides, with Kenan and Freya killing a couple of enemies each.
05:57Rothkar encounters Gunnar, who charges at him, knocking the king to the ground. Before killing
06:03him, Kenan appears to save Rothkar, but just as Gunnar was pulling himself together to counterattack,
06:07his men tackle him and take him away, claiming they have lost and it is time for a retreat.
06:12Gunnar's group leaves, but not without Gunnar cursing Rothkar, accusing him of being the murderer
06:16of his family and people. The village tries to recover after the attack, and Freya explains to
06:21Kenan who Gunnar is. Years ago, Wulfric's father wanted to gather all the villages to plan an attack
06:25on the Franks, but Gunnar did not show up, feeling this as a betrayal, so both villages have reason
06:30to hate each other. Gunnar's group plans on their subsequent attacks on Wulfric and his people.
06:35One of them breaks away from the group to pee, and he's attacked by the hiding Morwen in the lake.
06:39Gunnar's men begin to fall one by one, believing it to be a surprise attack by Wulfric.
06:44Gunnar is left alone in front of the beast, deciding to attack it without fear. In the village,
06:49some of Gunnar's men appear screaming and surrendering, wanting to go in so as not to die.
06:52However, Wulfric thinks it's a trap, so he prepares his archers to shoot. Among the men
06:57appears Gunnar, who survived the Morwen and now calls for help. The archers fire, killing some men
07:02except Gunnar. Kenan asks them to stop shooting, and after this, he opens the village's gates for
07:07the enemies to enter. Just as Wulfric is about to hit Gunnar, everyone sees a series of blue lights
07:12catching a man in the forest and then devouring him. The blue lights turn red, revealing the wild
07:17Morwen, who escapes into the woods. Now everyone knows of the creature's existence. There's friction
07:22between Wulfric and Gunnar in the Great Hall, with the latter claiming that hitting Morwen was like
07:27hitting a stone wall. Kenan tells them that fighting the Morwen in open fields is impossible,
07:31so they must devise a trap. Wulfric doesn't trust the plan and says that Kenan isn't one of them,
07:36so they shouldn't listen to him. However, Kenan lashes out, saying that Wulfric is wrong just as he
07:41was about the supposed attacks by the Baron Gunnar. The two try to fight, but Rothger separates them.
07:47The king favors Kenan's plan and says that what he advises will be done. The next day they decide
07:51to build a trap at the village's entrance, and Kenan requests flammable materials for some reason.
07:56They dig a pit several meters deep, which they hide as if it were just another hut. Inside,
08:01several poles are driven into the ground, filled with various oils. After everything is set,
08:06Rothger offers Kenan a position in the village, making him one of his own. Meanwhile,
08:10one of last night's victims wakes up surrounded by corpses, only to be finished off by Morwen.
08:15In Freya's hut, she and Kenan share a bowl of stew, and that's when Kenan has something to confess.
08:20His people, Kenan's society, are actually conquerors of worlds. Upon arriving in Morwen's
08:26territory, they wiped out its kind with bombs. The remaining Morwens were hunted down to have
08:30dominion over the place. Turns out that Kenan was part of a group of space colonizers, and in exchange
08:35for being able to eradicate the Moonwar's life, he and his family were given a place on the planet
08:39where they could reside. Sometime after the conquest, Kenan had to leave for a new mission,
08:44but there he learned that one of the Moonwar's had survived and was hiding in the ship's ventilation,
08:48the same Moonwar that killed the remaining population. Kenan blames himself for that slip-up,
08:53but Freya tells him that he shouldn't be so hard on himself. Likewise, she gives him her family's
08:58sword to fight better. They all prepare for the trap, now with Gunnar's help. The warriors open the
09:03doors, and Wulfric and Kenan go outside, waiting for the beast to appear. They couldn't see much,
09:08and since nothing was happening, Kenan throws a torch into the forest, only to realize that the
09:13Moonwar is right in front of them. Out of nowhere, the village priest appears praying for the beast to
09:17leave, alleging it is a Lucifer's emissary. He's killed on the spot brutally, so Kenan and Wulfric
09:23start to run, passing the water trap and using the shields as a platform to escape to the other side.
09:28Still, Wulfric falls into the water next to the beast. To make matters worse, the warriors close the
09:33doors, leaving the two inside. Just before the archers unload their flaming arrows,
09:38Kenan offers Wulfric help by trying to hold him through an outside hatch and manages to rescue
09:42him in time to avoid the explosion. While everyone is surprised by the explosion, a new, smaller Moonwar
09:47appears from behind, in the area where the women are hiding. To protect everyone, Freya decides to
09:52attack. Her father comes to the rescue, but a brief struggle against the beast leaves him helpless.
09:57As if that weren't enough, the first Moonwar reappears from the fire, angrier than ever.
10:02Wulfric and Kenan decide to attack together, but they are no match for the monster. Gunnar chooses
10:06to help, but he's decapitated in a flash by the first Moonwar, who then flees. Eric appears to
10:12tell Kenan that there is a second Moonwar, so they run to help Freya. Unfortunately, she is found
10:16holding her father's lifeless body, who perished in the battle. The whole village leaves the following
10:21day, fearing another attack. Eric tells Kenan that he wants to stay with him in the village,
10:25but Kenan tells him that the place is no longer safe, so he has to leave with the others on the boats.
10:30He promises the boy that they will see each other again and then say goodbye. Kenan meets
10:34Wulfric, although the latter is depressed by the outcome, to the point where he does not feel worthy
10:39of the rain, Kenan tells him that they must fight the monster together. They both enlist a small group
10:43of men to go down the common well. Although the idea is crazy, it's the only way to find the Moonwar's
10:48hideout. Kenan asks Boromir for new weapons, this time with more substantial materials that he will
10:53bring. Kenan goes with Freya and Wulfric to the lake where his ship crashed to recover some
10:58materials by diving down. While he manages to bring some things up, Kenan is surprised by a
11:03moonware under the lake. When he gets to the surface, he sees that the boat they were in was
11:07destroyed, only finding Wulfric, but with no trace of Freya. Boromir manages to forge a new sword,
11:13larger and stronger than any other. Already prepared, Kenan goes down the well until he
11:17finds a subway grotto. He waits for the others, and they begin to advance. Freya wakes up terrified,
11:23finding herself in the monster's nest of corpses. As she tries to flee, one of the beasts finds her.
11:29Before attacking, the beast detects intruders, so it abandons Freya to go after them. Kenan's
11:34group ends up in a cave with access to a lava floor. Soon they are attacked, managing to find
11:38the Moonwar's lair and wounding the smallest specimen, but with heavy casualties, including
11:42Boromir's death. Freya manages to get up, and they call out to each other. Just before entering a
11:47dark place, Freya detects danger, and the wounded moonware appears, unable to see her and now helped
11:52only by sound. When they find each other, both the men and Freya make enough sound for the beast to
11:57attack, and Freya barely has enough time to dodge the smash. To get to her friends, Freya has to pass
12:02through a hole, but it is too small for her, so with no other choice and in a desperate act, they give
12:07the sword to Freya, who kills the monster on the spot. They get together, but far from having a warm
12:11reunion, they all look horrified at the amount of corpses in the cave. When they heard that something
12:16was approaching, they leave, and the last moonware sees its son's body, going berserker against the
12:21warriors. They all reach the end of a waterfall on a mountain next to a cliff. They try to escape,
12:26but the walls are too slippery to climb. Still, they try to do it, but Freya falls to be rescued
12:31by Keenan. Meanwhile, Wolfric is attacked by the older moonware, and in a desperate act,
12:36he manages to wound him in the face. Freya remains stable, but the moonware throws Wolfric's towards
12:41Keenan, leaving him alone in the fight. He re-enters the cave with his sword and manages to cut a
12:45tentacle of the beast, although he doesn't hit it directly. Following the trail of blood,
12:50Keenan stumbles throughout, and just before being attacked by the beast behind his back,
12:54Freya appears attacking the beast, giving Keenan the perfect moment to lunge. However,
12:58the beast manages to drag him to the edge of the cliff, and while Freya holds Keenan,
13:02he is pinned down by the moonware. After struggling, Keenan gets his sword and cuts off the beast's hand,
13:07so it falls into the void. They both return to the dying Wolfric, who asks if the beast is finally
13:12dead. They confirm it. Wolfric offers Keenan the medallion that makes him king, regretting not
13:17having established a good friendship with him. Keenan corrects Wolfric, telling him that they
13:21are friends, and that's when he dies. Keenan and Freya climb up the cliff, finding Eric and the rest
13:26of the village in the boats down in the distance. The two share a kiss, but despite everything,
13:31Keenan says goodbye to Freya, telling her he has something else to do. She worries because she knows
13:35Keenan may never return. He actually goes back to his ship's wreckage, revealing that his wife was in
13:40suspended animation during the trip and that after the crash, her capsule ruptured, killing her.
13:45Keenan says goodbye and returns to his computer, which signals his comrades to pass by looking for
13:50him. Freya watches from the bushes as Keenan destroys the computer, leaving his only chance
13:54to return home. In the epilogue, Freya narrates how Wolfric and Rathgar are buried, giving the highest
13:59Viking honors for their worthiness to them, and that Keenan, once a stranger to the people, became their
14:04new king, with Freya becoming his new wife and Eric, his adopted son. Freya concludes with the
14:09sacrifice Keenan made, of how he was sent by the gods, but at the time of his retreat, decided to
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