Every year, each district sends two child tributes to the Capitol, Panem, to battle to the death until only one remains standing.
District 12, where Katniss (Jennifer Lawrence) and Peeta (Josh Hutcherson) live, is the poorest, and they haven’t had a tribute win in years.
It’s been awhile since The Hunger Games took the world by storm, but the basic premise is still pretty easy to remember: a post-apocalyptic tyrannical government has divided the United States into twelve mostly impoverished districts.