The Quiet Earth
After a mysterious event called "The Flashlight" causes all life on Earth to vanish overnight, Zac Hobson, a scientist involved with a secret energy project, wakes up to find himself seemingly the last man alive. Struggling with isolation and a growing mental instability, he begins to explore the deserted world, eventually declaring himself "President of the World." His loneliness is shattered when he encounters Joanne, a young woman who also survived, and later Api, a Maori man who initially seems hostile but joins them. The trio attempts to cope with their new reality and figure out what happened, all while Zac experiences vivid visions and electrical disruptions, linking them to his former work on Project Flashlight, a global energy grid intended to stabilize the Earth's magnetic field. Zac eventually deduces that Project Flashlight caused the catastrophe and is now threatening to tear the planet apart, leading him to sacrifice himself in a desperate attempt to reverse the process, only to witness the sun rise over a transformed, ringed sky, revealing that the Earth itself has been transported to another, alien realm.