In a frozen apocalypse where energy has run out, women are reduced to breeding machines. Lia refuses to become a genetic vessel and is strapped to an operating table for removal surgery. When her underground sisters blow up the energy district and geothermal power falls into women’s hands, they use destruction as leverage to force the ruling class to grant equality. But the new rulers send men to labor camps, revealing that the power structure has never changed: equality requires breaking the chains, not reversing who wears them.
