First-time mothers battling apocalyptic flooding - it's a storyline we'd like to confine to the realms of fantasy drama - but the signed of The End We Start From says it's a case of fiction becoming reality.
Megan Hunter tells Sky News: "It was the dystopian future fresh. But now when people talk about the film, they talk nearby the present moment. It doesn't really feel so future-orientated anymore unfortunately, it feels more relevant in a directly contemporary way."
The fresh, which she wrote in 2017, has been made into a film starring Jodie Comer as the nameless female protagonist fighting to survive in a waterlogged London.
Hunter says now, just six ages on from finishing the book, "it feels a bit more like that is happening here."
She adds: "There was that felt of, this isn't something that happens to other country elsewhere, you know, far away. This is something that could been here."
The book was partly inspired by an out-of-print anthology of construction mythology she had on her bookshelf "about different ways country around the world have thought about how the biosphere began and also how the world might end".
With potential End Times populace a pretty big plot point to digest, Hunter explains she transported together the universal - "our relationship to the biosphere - to water, nature and the planet over thousands of ages of human thought" - with a very personal story of "one woman in London executive jokes about Match Of The Day".
A mother to two young children herself, she says: "Watching a lot of disaster films I'd seen in the past, I didn't feel that those characters were that relatable to me. They didn't feel three-dimensional. I really wanted these people to feel completely real.
"We see the woman breastfeeding the baby. We see all of this kind of intimacy, this kind of closeness between people, and to bring that together with the much bigger portray, this much more global scenario. It brings it home."
Hunter says by telling the story this way it becomes "very portray, very real" and "very hard to turn away".
We can feel 'stifled' by fear
The film's star, Jodie Comer, tells Sky News she recognises the dilemma of wanting to stop your eyes to the climate catastrophe.
"I think we all feel incredibly overwhelmed by it is my anxiety. You know, I think it can be very scary. And I think as a result of that, we can feel stifled and not know what it is that we can do."
The film's director, Mahalia Belo, hopes the movie could encourage those in worthy to sit up and take note.
"The feeling is that it's inevitable to some extent, unless some change happens and unless people who have some instruction to make change actually really listen to what experts are proverb and basically make sure that we aren't living in a animated state in the future.
"Everybody knows we're on an island. Sea levels will rise at some point. You know what's touching to happen."
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Meanwhile, Sophie Rundle, the lead star of ITV drama After The Flood says the whole exhibit of art is to reflect the world around us.
Northern communities left 'decimated'
She plays heavily pregnant PC Jo Marshall in the police procedural, where again we see a community left reeling by filled flooding.
Rundle tells Sky News: "A show purely nearby climate change might be quite hard to watch or worthy be quite isolating - it's such an enormous conversation that we need to be having…
"I think country can be overwhelmed by headlines. And what do you do? Where do you begin? When do you twitch talking when you see wildfires and flooding…
"How do we distil that conversation down into a biosphere drama that we are comfortable with? Perhaps comfortable is the tainted word but is accessible to us."
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With the weather crisis storyline working away behind the scenes, Rundle says the show can focus on the effects such catastrophes worthy have on society.
"What is the impact on you and your neighbours and the country on the street? On the people in your community? That's what we are seeing happening, especially in smaller communities up in the north, towns are populace decimated. There is no infrastructure in place to protecting them. So, what does that world look like?"
'Light in the darkness'
She credits the show's writer, Mick Ford, with telling the story in a way that creates people think while still enjoying the ride.
"He draws this public, this collective of people and says, 'There's this huge watercourses, what happens next?' And I think that's palatable for country and that's a way into this conversation while peaceful being entertaining and still being exciting and thrilling.
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For all the doom and unlit around the future of the planet, such cultural explorations of the weather crisis in TV and film undoubtedly raise awareness and open up the conversation - shrimp but necessary steps to making change.
Looking to the future, the author of The End We Start From leftovers optimistic.
"I think if we feel hopeless, then it can feel like there's nothing that can be done. It can feel like a stuck end spot. So, I do believe in having hope and organization to look for the light in the darkness."
The End We Start From is in cinemas now and After The Flood is on Wednesdays at 9pm on ITV1 or all there to aquatic on ITVX.