Fallout

During the 1940s Nevil Shute had a steady job as an engineer in the British military but in his spare time he wrote novels that were being wellreceived Once the war was over Shute choose to move to Australia and focus on writing soon becoming an internationally acclaimed novelist His novel On The Beach particularly hit a chord with the international community depicting the impact of global nuclear destruction This documentary studies Shutes career and the adaptation of his most famous novel into a feature film in Melbourne as his predictions of a postHiroshima world seem to be foreboding in their accuracy