Lars Mikkelsen credited as playing...
- Narrator: Dad had always said the job of a dam keeper is to keep the darkness away.
- Narrator: But he never told me what to do when it surrounds you.
- Narrator: His mask protected me from the cloud, but nothing I had, protected me from the people.
- Narrator: At that age, I was almost too short to look outside.
- Narrator: Through one of our windows, all I could see was the cloud, an ocean of ash, it suffocated everything.
- Narrator: Out of the other window, I saw the people in town, out both, I saw darkness.
- Narrator: Dad had always said the job of a dam keeper is to keep the darkness away, but by then, I was doing it alone.
- Narrator: I was the dam keeper.
