The Mariner builds a boat and sails away, back to his old life.A wallpaper or background (also known as a desktop wallpaper, desktop background, desktop picture or desktop image on computers) is a digital image (photo, drawing etc.) used as a decorative background of a graphical user interface on the screen of a computer, mobile communications device or other electronic device. Gregor, Enola, Helen and the others start to rebuild civilization on the island. Gregor understands the map and leads them in the direction of what does, in fact, turn out to be Dryland: Mount Everest. They float at sea for a while and then have one last battle with the Deacon (who survived the blast) before being rescued by Gregor. The Mariner frees Enola and escapes the ship which sinks. This destroys the 'Deez in a large explosion. The Mariner drops the flare into the oil hold. He refuses and tells the Mariner that he would be crazy to blow up the ship. The Deacon does not believe Enola's warning that the Mariner never bluffs. The Mariner walks out onto the empty deck of the ship and threatens to throw a flare down into the oil holds unless the Deacon returns Enola. The crew begins to row the large ship with huge oars, in the style of a Viking longship. Based on the shape of the area of Dryland, the Deacon believes that the area must be Japan.
Unfortunately, neither the Deacon nor his crew has any idea how to read the map. The Deacon and his crew are celebrating finding "the map to Dryland". The Mariner goes after the Exxon Valdez on a stolen jetski. The Mariner tells everyone that he is going to rescue Enola. Gregor then takes them to where a new Atoll is being built. He tells them that it was "good thinking" to burn the boat. Gregor soon appears in his flying machine. Since the Mariner can breathe underwater, he "breathes" for both of them using a kiss.
The Deacon has his crew burn the Mariner's vessel and shoot at them, but they escape by diving deeper underwater than the bullets can reach. This scares Enola out of hiding and she is captured by the Smokers. The Deacon pretends to kill the Mariner and Helen by firing a gun into the sky. The Deacon wants the Mariner and Helen to tell him where Enola is, but they will not help him find her. When the Mariner and Helen return to the surface, the Smokers capture them.
While they are looking at the sunken city, the Smokers find the Mariner's vessel and take control of it. The Mariner puts her in a diving bell made out of plastic and swims down to a sunken city (actually the city of Denver) to show her. Helen learns that the Mariner knows where Dryland is and wants to see it.
They free the Mariner after he says he will take them with him. This leaves Helen and Enola on the Atoll as the Smokers attack it. Gregor's escape balloon is accidentally let loose too early (with him on it). Like the Mariner, they do not fit in with the other people. Helen and Enola plan to escape with Gregor (the Atoll's astrologer/ engineer) in search of Dryland. Enola lives with her guardian, Helen, a woman in her twenties or thirties. One of their spies told them that she was there. She has a map to Dryland tattooed on her back. They are looking for a young girl named Enola. He is the "captain" of an old oil tanker, the Exxon Valdez ("the 'Deez"). They fear him and plan to "recycle" ( execute) him in the Atoll's old dump for domestic waste.Īs they get ready to "recycle" the Mariner, the Smokers attack. During the fight to capture him, they learn that he is a mutant.
He does not like being around many people. The Atollers offer a trade with the Mariner: if he will stay with them long enough to get one of their women pregnant they will give him all the supplies he needs. He also appears to have very good reflexes. People call him "the Mariner." He is a genetic mutant, with webbed feet and gills. The main character in the movie is a drifter (Kevin Costner).
Most people believe the world was created in a flood. The humans that are still alive have forgotten the past. The Earth is almost entirely covered with water. Some time in the future, after global warming, the polar icecaps have melted.