Ivy and Isabel Soros pull into a small town in a white van. This van carries them and their six children and leaves them at the door of the home where they grew up and where their parents have since retired. In the past few years, Mr. Soros has suffered an untimely stroke that has left him paralyzed on one side, Isabel has secured a tenure track position at a university in Nebraska, and Ivy the same in Indiana. Isabel’s field of study is financial markets while Ivy concerns herself with apocalypse-oriented cults. Neither is famous but neither is starving, partly due to their husbands' lucrative industrial jobs for private corporations.  During their stay, the sisters get news of an incoming hurricane, but, being intellectuals who are properly apprised of the risks, don’t fret themselves too much as they make their preparations. As they go about looking for candles and batteries, they offer stories of their childhood—losing their respective virginities, the secret language they invented as children, and the cruel jokes Isabel played on her younger sister.  Meanwhile, the children get more frightened of the ensuing hurricane, as do the sisters’ parents, who start doomsday prepping as Ivy has repeated encounters with a religious missionary who tries to convert her to Christianity. By the morning of the storm’s arrival, it’s clear that the family is in grave danger. Plans to hunker down in the house are usurped by water coming in through the floorboards. The family hauls into the white van that arrived them there to seek high ground. The mission comes to a head when the van is sideswiped by a flying tree trunk that flings half of the family into water. The story ends with Isabel holding her sister and her sister’s son, realizing she cannot maintain a grip on both of them, and letting her sister fall away into the current.