Lifeline

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 new family. The world has tipped over and they must make it on their own. Mindra has to grow up fast.