Everybody's Gone to the Rapture: creating a romantic apocalypse

With influences ranging from John Wyndham to 1980s nuclear-war drama Threads, this gorgeous adventure is a very English take on the end of the world

Across the village green, the small country pub looks inviting - especially when bathed in the orangey light of this warm summer evening.

It has taken a short walk to get here, along a quiet country road, then through the picturesque village of Yaughton, with its quaint cottages and bulging hedgerows. The only sound is birdsong and a quiet electrical buzz, perhaps coming from an overhead power line somewhere. No one is around - nor will there ever be again. Everyone in the village is probably dead and whatever happened here may have happened all over the world. This is a particularly English vision of the apocalypse - bucolic, refined and charming. But it is the apocalypse nonetheless.