Two brothers,Kalup and Adrian, are attacked by a motorcycle gang in the post-apocalyptic city of Phoenix. Adrian, knowing that he has no other choice, uses his magic power to generate immense heat to burn the gang, allowing him and Kalup to escape.

The brothers then begin walking from Phoenix to San Diego, in pain from heat and lack of water. They are journeying to San Diego to find a woman who is supposed to be able to help them fix Adrian. They reflect on how they miss their home in Atlanta, and Yvette, a woman who took them in during “The Twisting,” the event that plunged their society into disrepair. They remember the day the electricity stopped, and law enforcement began a spree of manic terror, worsened by the magical abilities they all suddenly had. Adrian, left with the same mark and magical powers, is likely going to become crazy in the same way the police did.

When they arrive in San Diego, they head for the beach, knowing that people tend to go for the water given the limited supply of it and the general lack of products to cool people. A man with a gun comes up and tells them to leave, but Kalup utters the phrase “Profeta de profetas,” indicating the woman they have come for, and Adrian shows the marking on his hand indicating his magical powers. The man, Ignacio, offers to take them to the woman.

Ignacio takes them to a community with far more resources than they have seen recently, where the woman and her people live. A woman who lives there tells the brothers that the woman they're searching for has been waiting for them. They eat dinner with the community.

In the morning, the brothers go to the water. The woman they have been searching for meets them there, and introduces herself as Nya. She tells them that magic has always existed, but The Twisting was a major event that latched onto the primary emotion at the time: violence. She believes that by using the bond between the brothers, she can perform a ritual to rid the world of police magic. The brothers agree, and the three begin a ritual. Each begins to hear the voices of everyone who has wronged them, and they are to forgive each voice. The brothers complete this, and the world is rid of police magic, though still in disrepair.