| Summary |
In 2031, Zanna is doing ok, housesitting in Byron Bay, when Cyclone Ruby hits. She emerges from the cyclone shelter to find her house gone and looting breaking out, and escapes to her sister Kat's place in an eco-village in the hills. Zanna intends only a short stay, but with natural disasters piling up on economic crises, things don't go back to normal. A result of a one-night stand in the cyclone shelter, her son is homebirthed into a world where food no longer comes from supermarkets, petrol is hoarded, first world medical services are lost, and refugees test compassion. In Melbourne, Zanna and Kat's parents cope with water rationing, power outages, food shortages and bushfires. When their mother dies in a heat wave, their father sets out on a journey north through drought-stricken ghost towns, shedding luggage on the way. As Zanna's son grows up, his village learns how to live in this new world. A new kind of good life slowly emerges as, in a sign of hope, atmospheric CO2 peaks at 470 ppm and begins to fall. |
