In the wake of a devastating plague, two communities emerge as bastions of survival. One is named the City, and its people scrabble for scraps in the wasteland. The other, New Charity, loves the bounty of its hydroelectric dam and refuses City denizens a lot as a drop of valuable drinking water. When City-dweller Cressyda inherits her father’s ranch within New Charity, she turns into intent on starting the dam to all-no matter the price.

But when Syd reunites with her old best friend, Casandra, a given birth to about New Charity Blues seer and spiritual acolyte, she realizes that her plans could destroy the fragile lives they’ve built-in order to survive. What’s more, the strange magic protecting the dam’s operations could prove dangerous if disturbed. Yet when Syd discovers evidence that her dad might have been murdered, she actually is more determined than ever before to exact revenge on New Charity’s corrupt.

Pitted against Cas, aswell as her own family, Syd must determine how to protected the survival of both settlements without tipping them over the brink to utter annihilation. In this intense and emotional reimagining of the Trojan War epic, two ladies clash when commitment, identity, community, and family members are all put to the best test.