As the World Caves In is an original script and story, directed by Carly Rosenbloom. The story covers a group of teens, of varying backgrounds, asks the question what you would do with your last days on Earth? It then proceeds to take the next hour and a half exploring how this stressful and apocalyptic scenario would impact their choices. Jake Underhill is a junior, high school basketball star, middle child, who left his family for his friends: Dani and Noah, once he heard the news of the collective impending doom. Along with his sister, Wanda, Jake, Dani, and Noah all spend 3 whole days on a bender across town. Our story picks up the very next day with this group and we see how the debauchery and impending doom tests the ties that bind.
Jake Underhill was a role that required a close examination of a teenager whose insecurities about emotional vulnerability led him to run away from or drive away nearly every person who cared about him. Jake is forced to realize that only through rejecting his stoic facade, and accepting that emotional vulnerability doesn’t equate to being a burden, can Jacob find peace in the final moments, as the world caves in.
Jake is trying to talk down his sister, Wanda from her existential crisis about dying without having any life experience. Meanwhile elsewhere in town, Sadie and her babysitter, Isabel are fighting over Sadie's right to end her own life.
Jake is talking to his friends, Noah and Danielle, just after trying and failing to catch his sisters speeding car as she drives off, seemingly anywhere.
Jake realizes that he left his older sister, Fiona, in much the same way that Wanda has now left him.
Jake finds Wanda's bookmark in an old atlas on the page of Falling Star Cove. Jake knows what she's doing, but in desperation asks Dani and Noah if she'll come back.
Jake, as one of his last actions on Earth, calls his older sister in an attempt to apologize for the pain he knows he caused her. He tries to explain everything.
Jake is interrupted, mid-voicemail, by Dani and Noah offering him a spot on the roof as they all watch it end. Jake initially tells them to beat it, out of insecurity to be with them through this emotional time, but relents at the last minute, asking them to give him a minute so he can say he tried in his last few moments.
Dani and Jake hug before joined by Noah as they embrace one another, as a new family, as the world caves in around them.