As climate change continues to worsen, the American government issues a mandate requiring citizens to register their location and limit their oil-dependent travel to less than twenty miles per month. When a young woman living in California hears the news, she struggles to determine where her home is, considering her family lives thousands of miles away.

California has seceded from America, and Molly and her daughter Phoebe run a bookstore that straddles the troubled border of the two countries. When outright war breaks out, Molly and Phoebe must protect their customers - American and Californian alike - but the customers are not all willing to get along.

In California, a young woman reflects on her relationship to her father while working on a novel. Through reading her father’s novel, she understands their relationship through his eyes.

A husband and wife from San Francisco are desperate for money to keep their start-up afloat. They seek out the help of one of the woman's past flames, who is now a wealthy marijuana farmer.

An aimless, twenty-two-year-old Californian man questions everything—from his job to his ability to take care of a potted plant—as a heat wave sweeps his town. Just when he's about to spiral, a life-changing act of heroism gives him unexpected clarity.

While on the run from her crack-cooking boyfriend, a woman feels at odds with her place in life—literally and figuratively.

A high school dropout tries to make his dreams of being a rockstar come true in California. There, a mysterious hotel's beautiful guests seem to offer him the trinity of sex, drugs, and rock and roll, but he quickly finds himself in an endless cycle of exploitation that's difficult to escape.

A man, uprooting from his life in San Fransisco, takes on a rider on his long drive towards Denver, but finds they don't get along.

A woman reflects on her time in the Bay Area—and the two women she knew from there.

In a dystopic future on Earth, as a woman comes home from vacation, she hears about a continent emerging from the sea as old ones sink, and returns to find her husband released from Rehabilitation Camp. He and his fellow researchers discover how to make a “sun tap” to channel the sun’s energy into power, but then he is again forced away by the government, into a hospital.