In this part sci/fi fable, part species-bending coming-of-age story, Earth has suffered a massive human-made Conflagration that has reduced the global population to 1.2 billion. Given that another cataclysm of this sort could annihilate everyone left, many people are now convinced that humans aren’t the superior animal species they think they are and that technology isn’t the boon that it seems. As a result, a movement called Posthumanism has emerged, arguing that DNA’s experiment with opposable thumbs has gone catastrophically wrong and that humans need to quickly evolve into a life form that can do less harm to the planet and its inhabitants. This has incited the launch of a Prohumanist opposition with its own independent Militia, and violence between the two groups is escalating. In the midst of this contentious climate, a beautiful young changeling named Hasso literally washes up on shore ... and thus begins a remarkable journey in which she shakes things up in a big way. She soon falls in with a crew of medical-scientific renegades experimenting with a gene-editing technique that could potentially alter the appearance, mentality and behavior of human beings. And along the way she teams up with five other young people whose lives and love stories intertwine with her own as they struggle together to forge a Posthuman future.