The Apocalypse Comes On Little Cat Feet

In Ukraine.  In Syria.  In the working-class towns of England.  In New Jersey.  And in the hills overlooking the Pacific Coast Highway.

Two women, one in Kursk Oblast, Russia, the other in Malibu, USA, weep as they abandon their homes and their personal effects, but for a few photographs stuffed into their respective back packs.  The rest is engulfed in flames.