Happily ever after nuclear explosion

Kenneth is 13 years old, but looks like a 30-year-old man. He loves books from the library and his steak juicy. When he opens his mouth to speak, there’s no sound, just a severe gag reflex. His sister Charmaine is his voice now. She tells us about the preceding catastrophe and the life after it: What the government initially proclaims as an electric malfunction turns out to be a nuclear disaster. Birds plunge into buildings, people’s skin darkens, the internet crashes. The city is being evacuated. After arriving in a reception camp and relocating to a socially deprived district, their mother eventually dies from the consequences of the radioactive contamination. To evade isolation and social exclusion the siblings come to a fierce decision: They return to their hometown, to what is now a dead city. Exactly here, at the heartbeat of the catastrophe, they encounter unforeseen freedom.

Charmaine’s monologue, which is emphatically accompanied by Kenneth’s silent attendance,...