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Dec 20th. World is in chaos. its announced that everyone have to go into a fallout shelter. Joe is at home and he has shelter in cellar, but he doesnt want to go, just want to stay here and leave this world. His wife, Jenny, seemingly alive and well comes to him from kitchen, he look like he cant believe it, she asks what is he doing here and he needs to go to the shelter, urging him to join her in the shelter. He says No I dont want to live anymore in this world. As they engage in heartfelt conversation, the audience slowly realizes that Joe's wife is a product of his imagination a manifestation of his longing for the past, she is not alive anymore. Together, they reminisce about their life. At the end after heartbreaking and heartwarming time, she convices him to go to the shelter. But someone knocking in doors and he opens. There is a woman, Michelle, with her son Mark and asks him if he has own shelter and if they could spend the time there, they haven't their own and public is full. Said yes and they spending it together and getting closer, navigates the emotional rollercoaster, prays for surviving, he fell in love again, share stories, fears and dreams, and she falling too. After few days when all ends, they leave shelter and realize lot of homes are destroyed, her too. He loves her and he tell her to stay in his. In a poignant moment, Joe sees his dead wife smiling, waving, and fading away. With a heart full of memories and newfound love, he embraces the new chapter.
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