I started working on the script in 2015 right after finishing the shoot for Tumbbad. The idea of a rigorously accurate biological science fiction had been lingering in my head since Ship of Theseus. Amid all the zombification and the Statue of Liberty splitting devastation, few creators have ever stopped to consider what an existential threat might look like at ground level. How would it play out over the course of days, weeks, months? Not in a post-apocalyptic desert ruin of a city, nor in a race to survival as the doomsday approaches, but in the slow creeping up of effects as the world adjusts and adapts to a “new normal”. Emergence is the story of bit by bit building of resilience through human ingenuity as scientists and everyday heroes create solutions.