nothing much

Nothing much happens by way of action, yet unspoken tensions simmer under the surface, and by the movie’s surprising end, you sense that a tremendous transformation has quietly taken place.

Nothing much has happened, clearly.

"The ocean advances every day and our houses are becoming weaker. We are afraid and distressed but there is nothing much we can do," Saida Idris, a community leader, told the BBC.

“I think it’s part of the deal. You’ve just got to put up with it. There’s nothing much you can do,” she said.

And then we were waiting, doing nothing much.