Part One: The Reeping

"In penance for their uprising, each district shall offer up a male and a female between the ages of 12 and 18 at a public "Reaping." These Tributes shall be delivered to the custody of the Capitol. And then transferred into a publicarenawhere they will Fight to the Death, until a lonevictorremains. Henceforth and forevermore this pageant shall be known as the Hunger Games."

The Hunger Games opening scene