Into The Forest: Jean Hegland

Teenage sisters Nell and Eva live alone in the forest, recently orphaned and completely isolated. They struggle for normality in a post-holocaust world, in the silence of nature. Over 30 miles from the nearest town, and several miles away from their nearest neighbor, Nell and Eva struggle to survive as society begins to decay and collapse around them. No single event precedes society's fall. There is talk of a war overseas and upheaval in Congress, but it still comes as a shock when the electricity runs out and gas is nowhere to be found. The sisters consume the resources left in the house, waiting for the power to return. Their arrival into adulthood, however, forces them to reexamine their place in the world and their relationship to the land and each other. As they blaze a path into the forest, the discover their hidden power, to become pioneers - not just creatures of a new world, but the creators of it. Made into a film in 2015.