20211014-1_720pmp4 90%

The file was buried in a folder titled Unsorted . No thumbnail, just the cold string of numbers: 20211014-1_720p.mp4 .

"Just making sure I don't forget the light," Elias mutters in the recording. 20211014-1_720pmp4

On that Tuesday in October, the world hadn’t ended, but for Elias, it had shifted. This was the last video he’d taken before the "Great Migration"—the day his family packed three suitcases and left the coast for good. The file was buried in a folder titled Unsorted