A surreal mind-game of a series centering on a group of strangers who awaken in a deserted town with no memory of how they arrived, only to realize that there is no escape. Watched by omnipresent security cameras, their every attempt at leaving the town's borders is thwarted by mysterious forces. The only source of information is fed randomly through remotely controlled televisions, and as mistrust begins to breed, every alliance will be tested, especially when new guests begin to arrive.

500 feet beneath the ocean's surface, the U.S. ballistic missile submarine Colorado receives orders to fire its nuclear arsenal at Pakistan. Captain Marcus Chaplin (Andre Braugher) and XO Sam Kendal (Scott Speedman) question the orders and the Colorado comes under fire from another U.S. submarine. With their submarine crippled, the crew of the Colorado are forced to seek refuge on a nearby island. They must survive unprecedented odds as they work to unravel the conspiracy and clear their names.

Written by Arthur C. Clarke and hailed as a revolutionary work of science fiction since its publishing in 1953, Childhood’s End follows the peaceful alien invasion of Earth by the mysterious “Overlords,” whose arrival begins decades of apparent utopia under indirect alien rule, at the cost of human identity and culture.