Synopsis: Community organizer and gardener Iona's comrade has gone missing in a post-America landscape of salvaged solar panels and urban gardens. In the near future, national governments and major multinational corporations have merged into a world government known as the Meld Authority to combat imminent disaster due to climate change. An airborne pacifying drug called the Meld compels cooperation. Those who submit are given all they need, but those on the outskirts, like Iona, remain wary. While seeking the truth behind her friend's disappearance, she becomes embroiled in struggles that fill the void left by corporations and the state. Meanwhile, the Meld is expanding into Iona's neighborhood. Resistance to the Meld has already begun, and Iona must stand in support of her friends, her values and her community.