2D animated storyboard frame, matching the drawing style of the reference images: clean confident ink linework, flat cel colours, soft cinematic lighting, expressive faces. Reference 1 is Maya (British-Filipino woman, golden-tan skin, black hair); reference 2 is Daniel (Black man, short beard). A tunnel junction with a rusted full-height steel floodgate on a hand-cranked wheel: Daniel and a woman with dark curls and round glasses haul the wheel; a burly bearded bald man on the floor shoves the rim with his good leg; Maya, golden-tan, short jaw-length black hair, black parka, red scarf, pulls an elderly woman in a brown coat through the narrowing gap. Torchlight slicing through the gap. Only Maya wears red. No dogs. No text, no letters, no logos, no captions.
