The world as we know it is ending.
There are rumors of martial law, of Congress confining pregnant women, of a registry, and rewards for those who turn these wanted women in..
As Cedar goes back to her own biological beginnings, society around her begins to disintegrate, fueled by a swelling panic about the end of humanity.
She is four months pregnant.
Cedar feels compelled to find her birth mother, Mary Potts, an Ojibwe Living on the reservation, to understand both her and her baby\'s origins.
But for Cedar, this change is profound and deeply personal.
Thirty-two-year-old Cedar Hawk Songmaker, adopted daughter of open-minded Minneapolis liberals, is as disturbed as the rest of America around her.
Science cannot stop the world from running backwards, as woman after woman gives birth to infants that appear to be primitive species of humans.
Evolution has reversed itself, affecting every Living creature on earth.
The world as we know it is ending