Beschreibung
Vyzhival'shchik Dzhejms Hillkout gotovitsya k koncu sveta stroit ubezhishche v podvale svoego londonskogo doma i delaet zapasy.
Odnako so vremenem podval nachinaet kazat'sya emu nenadezhnym, i posle razmolvki s zhenoj on bez ee vedoma uvozit vos'miletnyuyu doch' Peggi v zabroshennuyu hizhinu posredi gluhogo lesa gde-to v Germanii. Tak nachinaetsya istoriya ih vyzhivaniya. Istoriya poslednih dvuh lyudej na zemle, kak dumaet Peggi, ved' otec ubedil ee, chto vo vsem mire bol'she nikogo ne ostalos'
Devyat' let spustya Peggi vozvrashchaetsya domoj, k materi, no popytki vyyasnit', chto proizoshlo v lesu, privodyat k novym zagadkam.
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