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 floodwave rages through the river valley.
Climate change has made the weather go feral. 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...