Eighty-seven years after the nuclear war, surface maintenance worker Shen Li obtained "rain seeds" that could restart the global purification system. However, rapid decontamination would create new radiation fallout, and maintaining the status quo would see the surface doomed within twenty years. When the Dome City Council and the Wasteland Resistance each try to monopolize the right to restart, he must find a third way that allows everyone to know, choose, and bear the cost together.
