The story follows Sarah who is anxiously waiting for her partner Kentil to return home. When he fails to arrive, Sarah embarks on a desperate search to find him. Her quest leads her to a confrontation with M-Corp agents who accuse her of failing to comply with a law regarding childbirth. The penalty is severe, and to escape the dire consequences, Sarah flees into the Forbidden Zone which becomes a landscape of both anger and hope. In the complexities of her situation, not everything is what it seems in this dystopian setting.