In the frozen doomsday when energy is exhausted, humans relegate women to reproductive machines. Leah refused to become a genetic container and was strapped to the excision operating table. When the underground sisters detonate the energy zone, the geothermal lifeline falls into the hands of women - who use destruction as a bargaining chip to force those in power to hand over equality. Yet the new powers that be put men into labor camps reveal that power structures have never changed: equality requires tearing off chains, not overturning oppression.
