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Tom Bedford

The End We Start From ending explained: what happened to the mother and the UK?

Benedict Cumberbatch and Jodie Comer in The End We Start From.

In The End We Start From, torrential rain and flooding sees the low-lying areas of the UK completely washed away, forcing people into shelters. As food runs low, people take to looting and extreme measures, and it's this world in which our main character embarks on a quest to find safety for her new-born baby.

The movie has quite an abstract narrative, letting you put the pieces together to work out what's happening instead of giving you all the details. One example is how the entire The End We Start From cast aren't given names, just letters.

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