In the distant future, when the ocean has risen up to consume nearly all of humanity, a surviving woman watches her descendants grow less and less human and morph into alien-like creatures. She recounts her memories of the flood as she ascends a mountain to see her children, who have been left there to adapt into their new bodies.

A young psychologist, who has the technology to watch people's thoughts as a means of diagnoses and her journey, aims to gain a better understanding herself, her patients, and her occupation.

When a woman meets her striking neighbor, the two engage in a forbidden love affair filled with longing and heartache.