The Wine Cellar: What We Keep

Beneath a suburban house, Michael and Charlotte wait out the end of the world in a reinforced wine cellar built for preparation, not survival. Above them, radiation poisons the land. Below, fear, love, and consequence press closer with every passing hour.

When signs emerge that they are no longer alone, the cellar stops being a refuge and becomes a question: how long can safety last when other people are desperate enough to take it? As Michael adapts to a harsher logic of survival and Charlotte carries both hope and grief inside her, the world forces decisions that preparation was never meant to answer.

The Wine Cellar: What We Keep is a quiet, devastating post-collapse story about love under pressure, the limits of control, and the cost of choosing who we become when survival is no longer enough. It is not a story about the end of civilisation, but about what remains after certainty dies — and what must be carried forward when everything else is left behind.