The film is set in a dystopian post-apocalyptic future in the nation of Panem, where a boy and a girl from each of the nation's 12 Districts are chosen annually as "tributes" and forced to compete in the Hunger Games, an elaborate televised fight to the death. Katniss Everdeen volunteers to take her younger sister's place when her sister was initially selected as tribute. With her district's male tribute, Peeta Mellark, Katniss travels to the Capitol to train and compete in the Hunger Games.
