Narrated in the style of a daily diary, Episode One is Will’s recounting of the days leading up to his first journal entry, and explains the events that brought him to his cave in the wilderness. It describes how climate change prompted the mutation of the most aggressive virus the world had known, and how he escaped infection even as he watched his family succumb to it. Pursued by others also fleeing the pandemic, Will shows that in what has become a dog-eat-dog world, rugged survivalists like himself are the most likely to succeed.

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After shuttling the remainder of his supplies to his new cave, Will finds that he’s not alone in the wilderness as shots break the stillness before dawn. Going to investigate the old hunting cabins downslope, he discovers that even here the virus has the power to turn men to violence.

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As Will settles into his remote camp the threat of human violence is temporarily behind him, but now he faces the challenges of surviving all alone in the wild. The Ishi wilderness is full of things that can easily injure or kill a person who is unprepared: precipitous topography, poisonous plants, venomous snakes and mammalian predators. If he's up to the task there's plenty of wild game and an abundance of edible and medicinal plants to sustain him. Now is his time to synchronize with the rhythm of nature and hone his skills - he's going to have be on his game to deal with what's coming in the weeks and months ahead.

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In Episode 4: Will has begun to fall nicely into a pattern of sustaining himself from the abundance of nature, then once again he is jolted back to the reality of a post-viral world gone mad. When a military gunship shatters the tranquility of Deer Creek Canyon he’s sickened by the carnage it inflicts, but ends up finding hope in an encounter that will completely change his plans, his perspective and the trajectory of the story.

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Just as Hope has given Will a renewed purpose to survive, a misguided paramilitary force seeks to destroy anyone existing outside of their quarantine zones. In this episode Will and Hope are systematically hunted from ridgetop to creek bottom. When soldiers get between the two and chase down Hope, Will’s bloodlust is ignited. But when a single shot rings out in the canyon below him Will knows the terrible reality of what that must mean.

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In addition to the many wilderness skills that Hope is learning and practicing, Will knows that self-defense skills may be the most important lessons. When he shows her the: eye gouge, groin kick, heel palm strike and elbow strike, she picks them up quickly and is “as fast as lightning”. But all prove useless against an attacker so small she doesn’t even know it’s there.

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Surviving in the wild can be like playing a board game – the board (the outdoors) remains the same but the dice (your skills) can change your odds of winning. Thriving in the wilderness is dependent on knowing the constants of the game board: edible foods will remain edible, rubbing two sticks together can make fire, snow falls in winter, etc. But when climate change and centuries of man’s antipathy towards nature alters the constants of the game, the odds of winning are greatly diminished.

A tiny arachnid that has become a vector for a deadly virus, droughts that dehydrate forests for cataclysmic firestorms, hornets the size of hummingbirds.

Can two refugees in the hinterlands survive the simoom of change?

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Fire has consumed almost all of the supplies and equipment, and has driven the game out of the canyon. In order to survive the present and provision for the future the best option is to head northwest, to the even more remote Mill Creek Canyon. The terrain between the two creeks is rugged and the challenges are many, but along the path there is a sweet spot where a body can savor and reflect on one’s role in the fabric of nature.

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