Aftershock follows four groups of people in the minutes, hours and days after Wellington is struck by a magnitude 8.2 earthquake and subsequent tsunami. Buried office workers must pull together. Strangers, caught by the tsunami on a ruined motorway, put themselves in danger to save others. A mother must reunite her family. And, at the centre of the rescue operation, a controller is bunkered down at Wellington’s Emergency Management Office.

• The Gibson Group
• Adam Armstrong
• Monique Bree
• Christopher Brougham
• Hamish Brown
• Amalia Calder
• Kip Chapman
• Lucy Buick Constable
• Terri De'ath