Adapted from the bestselling novel by David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas (15A) is an epic tale encompassing a number of interlinked stories, ranging from 1849 through to the modern day and on to a far future ‘after the Fall’ in which we find humanity reduced again to a Stone Age civilisation as it struggles to survive.

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