Convinced the world can’t be trusted to prioritise the well-being of adolescent girls in a crisis (or even in everyday life), a determined group of 8th-grade “doomers” prepare for survival in the post-collapse society they expect to inherit.
In the garage of her suburban duplex, twelve-year-old Josephine makes apocalypse preparedness videos for YouTube. Vic takes Jujitsu. Maureen encrypts her texts and hoards matches (“because lighters fail”). Sarah packs her bag with socks, granola, water tablets, and Tolkien novels — “because you don’t know where you’ll be when it happens.”
Judy Blume meets Rambo, WROL is a darkly comic coming-of-age story for complicated times.