Kumari lives in California in 2032, after nuclear war and climate change have destroyed most of the world so that only several isolated cities survive among the ruin. People from her generation populate these cities, but most of their parents, who were teenagers in the nineties, have died from illness or war. Kumari has some family still living, and they tell her about her ancestors who had psychic capabilities. Her grandmother saved their family on multiple occasions, stopping a gas leak before it was dangerous and breaking in time to avoid a car accident. Kumari is somewhat psychic, but her main ability is voluntary dissociation. For most people, this ability originates from an experience of sexual trauma. Kumari can now dissociate on command, which allows her to see the world from the sky and feel the thoughts and souls of people like her. For Kumari, the sky is a safe space away from the ongoing war that surrounds her.