Wide shot of a sunlit forest clearing, tall ancient trees with thick orange-brown trunks surrounding the space, dappled golden light casting long diagonal shadows across the grass, at the center a red and white checkered picnic blanket on the ground with a wicker basket, a baguette, a bowl of strawberries, a glass of orange juice catching the light, and an open book resting face-down on the blanket, no people, birds perched in the upper branches, peaceful and still, everything calm before catastrophe