In the not-so-distant future, a post-global world struggles to keep a shattered economy alive and to preserve a shred of the ecosystem that once existed. The worldwide corporation GLOBAL has taken over everything and then relinquished some of it, creating a void in both the government and private sectors. Living amid the clash of futuristic technology and extreme poverty are two women with very different lives. Nadia is a sick and bed-bound housewife whose husband finds a surgeon to perform a questionable surgery to restore her health. Roxanne is the unlucky teenage runaway unwittingly pulled into the radical procedure - one that could bring new life to a young and struggling family. The surgery gives Nadia back her physical health, but it also triggers a transformation far deeper than anyone could have imagined.