In 2031, America is at war with itself when the Republic of California is declared, the curfew in Los Angeles is lifted, and the city pours into one great party.
Newly released from prison, Ari arrives with her friend Gloria just as a tentative new order begins.
People who should not be there are already in the crowd, and the night goes wrong in ways she cannot name.
Years later, living another life in Paris, Ari remains haunted by what she saw.
That gathering split her sense of reality and may still open onto a different world, where crimes and lost loves stretch across space and time.
