This movie is about the story of a city, The City of Ember, powered by a powerful underground generator which provides light, warmth and daily necessities to the underground city dwellers. Over the years the generator has been having issues. As the result of its deterioration there are many blackouts, which are longer, happening frequently and because of that people are fearful on a daily basis that one day the light will never return.
The City has an organised system, the assignment of jobs, which is called “Assignment Day”. On the assignment day the teenagers Lina Mayfleet and Doon Harrow after being assigned to work in the pipeline and as a messenger, decide to swap their jobs. Lina, being the descendant of the seventh mayor, finds in her grandmother’s house a hidden metallic box that contains the instructions how to escape. While exploring they come across the current mayor’s henchmen who is stealing food from the population.
While being chased they must find a way out of Ember, a way how to escape from the city saving the people from the imminent destruction and darkness that will soon plague the underground city.
Napisao: Borna Markon