When you’ve been set up to lose everything you adore, what’s there left to fight for?
As the day dawns at the 50th annual Hunger Games, worry grips the districts of Panem. This yr, in honor of the Quarter Quell, twice as many tributes can be taken from their homes.
Back in District 12, Haymitch Abernathy is making an attempt no longer to think too tough about his possibilities. All he cares about is making it thru the day and being with the woman he loves.
When Haymitch’s name is referred to as, he can sense all his desires ruin. He’s torn from his own family and his love, shuttled to the Capitol with the three different District 12 tributes: a younger friend who’s nearly a sister to him, a compulsive oddsmaker, and the maximum caught-up woman on the town.
As the Games start, Haymitch is aware he’s been installation to fail. But there’s something in him that desires to combat . . . And feature that fight reverberate some distance past the lethal area.