In the far future, humans have installed “wetware” in their brains, a way for them to access the Internet and record their memories. Climate change has begun raising the sea levels, and only a few have access to grand homes on the mountains that will escape the waters. However, a great tsunami floods the land, leaving most of the world underwater. Afterwards, a woman and her partner, the “boy”, undergo an evolution of their minds and bodies. Their previously human features have begun to morph and fade, becoming more alien-like. The woman retains most of her memory logs in her wetware, but the boy and other remaining humans lose any recollection of their past. The boy and woman have had many children who now wait for them on the world’s last remaining peak as they, too, undergo a shift in their bodies.

As they travel to the mountain, the woman accesses her memories of the events before the tsunami. In these memories, she is attending a gala with an acquaintance. The woman then returns to the present. She and the boy navigate through a drowned world, then reach a temple on a peak. A featureless man leads them to their children, and the woman accesses her memory again. The hosts of the gala are offering her and her date to see something special. The memory malfunctions and flashes forward to her date speaking to the host’s possible son.

In the present, the boy and woman reach their children. The older ones have morphed into a gelatinous state, joining their bodies with others to form one living mass. The younger ones await their mother to share her memories of the tsunami. She shares them, revealing the boy to be the host’s son and the featureless man to be her date. The tsunami arrived as the boy was showing the man the host’s telescope. The tsunami engulfed the mountain, but it was composed of the substance of a tremendous being rather than water. After sharing her memories, she and the boy rest on the roof of the temple, leaving the children to continue their transformation, at the end of which they will join the ever-growing living mass. The woman recalls what the host wanted to show her. It was the last piece of ice and snow from the top of Mount Everest—the last remnant of the world occupied by true humans and the mountain that had not been submerged—where she and the boy now sit.