Drought, sinking earth, fear, and pursuit have all conspired to unravel a city—where young women, stranded in a wasteland on the fringes of a sprawling metropolis, hemmed in by drought and refuse, live confined within a prison-like compound. They swallow fear to their core and weave dreams of escape, unaware that, for some time now, countless others across the great city have also been fleeing—hounded by agents or paralyzed by the dread of capture. In the end times of such a land, a quiet miracle stirs from within the walls of a crumbling house, now turned into a fortress-prison for girls abandoned by their families.