Two fibre cables serving the island of Orsena fail ninety minutes apart.

• All characters are adults, ages 34 to 64.
• Infrastructure failure, communications deprivation and medical jeopardy.
• A death after delayed emergency care is recalled, not shown.
• Corporate negligence, professional coercion, evidence concealment and blackmail.
• Dangerous maritime work, a crushed hand and storm peril.
• Alcohol use.
• Consensual adult intimacy is implied and cuts away at the door.
• No slurs are written out; bigotry appears only through behaviour and consequence.

Text-first draft: backgrounds and character art are generated placeholders and there is no audio yet.