Would you like to build your home in the fields, in the sky, at sea, or underground?
Where will the ideal, comfortable home of the future be? Faced with numerous catastrophic ecological crises, including earthquakes, tsunamis, acid rain, typhoons, and photochemical pollution, how can humanity protect itself and survive? Let us seek answers through the struggles of three young translators in the workplace.
Three simultaneous interpreters, the introverted Lin Dan, the careless Emily, and the timid Fuyuan Ju, form a Chinese-American-Japanese "iron triangle." After making a mistake while interpreting at the United Nations Forum on Environmental Protection and Energy for Mayors, they become accidental UN special envoys and return to their hometowns in the temporary roles of assistant to the mayor. They vigorously promote energy conservation and emissions reduction, clean up pollution, and develop new energy sources using the sun, wind, water, and cold. They transform urban ways of life, from housing and healthcare to education and food. Outside Fengyang, an industrial city, they build pastoral homes in the countryside; in Tokyo Bay near the coastal city of Yokohama, they construct homes on and beneath the water; and in the skies and underground around Topeka, an inland American city, they build homes in the air and below the earth. Step by step, they bring their vision of a cubic home system to life, with homes on land, at sea, in the sky, and underground. When disaster strikes, they use their intelligence and ingenuity to save the cities and their residents.
