As floodwaters engulf the town around him and continue to climb, an elderly man finds himself needing to construct additions onto his already complex building to avoid being submerged. He's skilled with construction materials and quickly adds height above the rising waterline. However, peering down through a hatch he leaves open for fishing, he realizes his pipe has fallen in—a cherished item irreplaceable by any of …

I came across The House of small cubes while looking through Netflix; it’s a short movie, running just twelve minutes. A man lives in a house-tower on a planet where the oceans have risen, and he has to keep adding to his home to avoid being submerged. He makes a mistake one day and loses his pipe down into a lower section of his dwelling. To get it back, he purchases scuba equipment. As he descends through the diffe…