Description:

Mikki and Luz are on their way to meet each other for the first time. Their parents met by accident thirty years earlier on the eastern seaboard of the United States. Mikki is a native of the Americas and Luz is from present-day France. Mikki has no family and a history of broken relationships. Luz has parents and a son but no husband. Both are respected, but thought of as oddities amongst their communities. And both are horsewomen. Mikki will travel across land with her companion, Pony, a well-known horse wrangler. Luz will make her voyage by sea, and bring along a selection of her own horses. Both women are concerned with an environment that they perceive as changing. But it is about to change more than they could ever imagine. They will be the last generation to walk the earth before the eruption of the Toba volcano radically alters the face of the planet, and forces the human race to the brink of extinction.