WHAT IF, JUST like that, the world as we know it ended? For an aspiring writer living in a remote hamlet on the Swiss-French border, this once stranger-than-fiction scenario is about to become reality. It begins with the lights and internet cutting out one night – ‘no biggie’, so she thinks. But when her neighbours don’t return from their trip abroad, the cars vanish from the roads and the birds stop singing outside, every aspect of her life is thrown into question...