Focusing on the actual experience of a family that survived the tsunami of December 2004 in Thailand, ’The Impossible’ is both a deeply moving drama and a technical challenge. Recreating the fearsome wave that swept everything away was not as complicated as getting to the heart of a story which addresses, with the deepest respect, the human condition: life, death, family, loss, loneliness and a million things which are all a part of us. This book is the detailed chronicle of a project as technically ambitious as it is emotional.