Astronaut Brie Foley battles time, trauma, and transformation after being abducted by Space Harvesters for “agricultural purposes.”

Comps:  The Wicker Man meets The Fly

SYNOPSIS:

TUSK is about a woman who cannot die, having been forever transformed by a fateful encounter with alien hospitality.

A bright and restless child, Brie Foley shows early talents for farming and an obsessive fascination with the night sky. A farm kid living an isolated life with her pious grandparents, she struggles to cope with the limitations of small-town life. In her teens, a terrible accident and an encounter with a troubled young man set her on the road to an ominous destiny.

The young man Brie meets in Survival Camp has cosmic knowledge and carries secrets. When he tries to dissuade her from her path, it is to spare her life and perhaps redeem his own.

Brie’s capture by alien entities challenges not only her scientific beliefs, but spiritual ones. The creature that tends to her during her "pasturing" - a haunted, tragic figure who has also suffered on Earth and in space - is her only beacon of hope and mercy. Triggered memories and visions Brie experiences while trying to escape reveal a pattern of recurring symbols from throughout her life, perhaps foreshadowing her fate. And a "ticking clock" element threatens as Brie's body slowly mutates and her hope of rescue comes to a brutal climax.

There are no elephants in space. TUSK means something else in this part of the cosmos; something rare and expensive for those who want it, and something terrifying to those employed in its manufacture.