Content1. Survivors52. Heat and food143. No longer alone224. The cable car295. Jack366. A family emerges417. Death478. Physicality519. Connection5610. Indisposed6111. To the other side6712. Food search7213. About babies8114. Girl’s love8615. Refuge9116. Secluded9717. The shipyard10318. Into the lion’s den11219. Negotiations12020. From flight to forward12921. New residents13922. Home14823. Scramble15524. Going concern16725. Changes17326. Captured17927. Cunning plans18628. Going home19029. Preparations20230. Hurricane20831. Picking up the thread21532. In search22133. Evaluation22734. Second attempt23435. The village by the lake24036. Home247Epilogue252Droughts and floods tear the fabric of society apart. In this crumbling world family and love offer the coherence to susrviveAll the sawmill's forest is lost in devastating fires. After years of drought, a period of torrential rain breaks out. The barren slopes no longer hold water, and a black tidal wave rages through the river valley.Eleven-year-old Mindra and her invalid grandmother are the last inhabitants of a village near the abandoned sawmill, high on the mountainside.She rescues some survivors, who become her new family.The world is tipping and they must make it on their own.